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My mother decided one day that she wanted to take us on a family holiday to Sri Lanka. The first day there it waas very hot and I was too bored to want to go out and explore (I was only 7!!).. We stayed in a very nice hotel, the name of which escapes me at teh moment. It was near the beach, and it had a pool, and a pond.. with frogs :). The manager was very friendly and took me round the immediate area of the hotel showing me stuff. Since then I’ve been three more times, and mother has been 7. There’s just something about a country where everyone’s so friendly that makes us keep going back..

I was born in London, but my mother is Japanese. Up until I was five years old she took me back to Japan twice a year to see my family in Hiroshima. The year I turned five I started going on my own. I can still remember the stewardess holding my hand and walking me through to get my luggage and fine my grandparents. We’d get the bullet train back to Hiroshimaeki, and drive home from there. They live up a mountain, it’s a very pretty place. I spent alot of time just runnign up and down the mountain looking for monkeys (alas I never found any).. I’m 20 now, and I sitll go back there. And when I do everyone remembers me. I was the little blonde girls who used to run up to people and pounce on them hugging them. sigh Oh, and there’s an increidbly yummy yakiniku place near the Hiroshima Station. “YakiYakiTei”. It’s near the fire station, and has been run by the same family for as long as i’ve been going there…

I was going to visit my cousins. It was the first time I had been anywhere in Japan other than Hiroshima. I was <5. Don’t remember much from it, but do have many videos of the trip :). Since then I’ve been going back once every two years or so..