So there's been a big typhoon moving up towards Tokyo from the eastern seaboard of China over the past few days. It's been kinda fun, actually, experiencing a typhoon for the first time. Well, the side effects of one, anyway. Unless they move directly over Ako they don't really affect us too much. We're really sheltered here on the Seto sea, right on the southern coast of Honshu. Weather from the north gets absorbed as it comes down over the mountains in the middle of Hyogo, and the island of Shikoku directly beneath us tends to sap up any typhoons. So what we basically got was some fairly strong winds, grey skies and intermittent light rain for a few days.

Admittedly I was hoping to see a torrential downpour and insane winds, hehe. I've long wanted to experience a really strong storm, which you don't really tend to get in Perth. I guess Ako is not the place to do that though! Although Japan's rainy season is approaching and apparently it does rain every day, it doesn't do so heavily. Oh well! :)