I arrived in Osaka Wed evening and spent the night in the city. In a hotel of course but only just.. my reservation fell through over the net after it had already been confirmed. And somehow I gouged the magnetic strip on my debit card rendering it useless. And it may have also slipped my mind to convert some Aussie dollars to yen at the airport..:) That's ok thou, see all this hasn't happend yet because of course I was still dealing with fact that I was slightly lost. I later reflected on how funny it was that sometimes being lost is really a lot better than finding your way:) you just don't know it at the time. Well I eventually did find my way with the help of an Aussie girl and her Japanese friend.
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