Shikoku

Wow, has it really been three months since my last post? Umm, sorry. I was internet-less for 6 weeks, but that's not much of an excuse, is it? Anyway, last week I went on holiday with my friend Rosalee. We travelled around Shikoku, the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It was quite fun-packed and we managed to do so much stuff that I can't be bothered to write about it all. But... in a moment of boredom whilst waiting for a train, one of us suggested writing a 'holiday song'. We started brainstorming by writing down anything noteworthy that happened to us during the holiday, but the brainstorm soon spiralled out of control and swelled to epic proportions. Here it is in full:

Combini run
Synchroswim
Banjo
Monkey
Jaw action
Epic hotel (search)
Myth of the toucan
Toucan play at that game
Please take the orange elevator
Smokey bastard:
- Fire extinguisher in the ashtray
- Ashtray in the toilet
Welcome back to the smoking toucan
Rejection!
- hotel
- tourist info
- ticket booth
- restaurant
Premature bus disembarkation
Pyjamas & heels
Gorge
Vine bridge
Yoshida-sempai
Mindscratching
Eric Clapton
Interrogations
Sign-reading syndrome
Japanese giggles
Money haemorrhage
No time! No time!
White Knight, Ph.D
QR codes
Cricket
Whirlpools
Bridges
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Had to kill a chicken
Laid a hard-boiled egg
I saw the sign
I saw the jaw action
The eagle has landed
Angry cyclist of loneliness
"I feel like my life is in peril"
The spectacular time piece
Attitude gran
A step too far on the road to enlightenment
Nature trails
Ruining a couple's marriage
Crackheads
Ramen couple in the jungle
Fornicating frogs
Elephantine penal pendulum [This one is just too disturbing, so it needs some explanation. In the Richard Dawkins book I was reading, there was a passage about elephant penises acting as non-Newtonian pendula]
Shochu drunk proper
Trip to the airport
More bridges - symmetry
Rain
Got wet and smelly
Turntable
Deri
Urban onsen hipsters
Dovetail delights
dokodemo Bill
Siren spectators
Minty mouth
Emperor's tatamied toilet
Ultimate bath
Marshmallow tranny teaches terrible English
Tower of vegetabable
Ace of Base
"Very good jarou!"
Temples before breakfast
Bone shock
Esoteric rave on an empty stomach
Sent speechless by the god of war
Tunnel of Terror
Velvet stoner paradise
Buddha was a stoner
Mangy mutts
Combini cage
Corned tea
The unfortunate son
A run-in with rum
O.J. Simpson
Race relations
Normalcy regained (momentarily)
Big Ben
Buddhas in peril
Temples and tunnels
Word power
Crazy about wine
Morning of culture at a student rate
Cat in the sky
"It's all hazy"
Hobo holiday
Takamatsuyama
Japanese dinner - close call
Drinking in the park - hanaminai
The ultimate Lawson
"I don't want to drink it, but I have to" - giri drinking
Trash inspector
R's revisited
Optical fibre
Filthy nuggets

So, there you have it. My holiday in a nutshell. I'll stick some pictures on Picasa, so you can try and match the pictures with the brainstorm!