Update: Hello Thank you for all the birthday wishes! It was lovely to receive them. I had a good day. It was lovely and sunny so we did a walk round Auckland, and then went for dinner in the rotating restaurant in Sky Tower. Then threw ourselves off it the next day as Bernards pressie to me - what a sweetie! It was fun though, even if i did scream lots! Can't remember where we were when i last wrote, but Kyoto was really good. Lots of cultural stuff. We managed to see Geisha performing the tea ceremony and their Spring Dances - both highly surreal, as was the 'Traditional Buddist Theatre' with not a word spoken - just dance, and we still didn't understand any of it! We finished Japan off with a few days
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