20060319 - Sapporo to Hong Kong

Up early for breakfast, then over to the hotel for the 8:30am bus to the airport, as the other 3 were keen to see if they could get an earlier flight back to Tokyo, so they could stuff around there until the flight back to Sydney in the evening.

There are only a handfull of international flights out of Chitose each day, so I was stuck there for a whole heap of hours until my flight left at 4:20pm.

My first challenge was to find the post office to post back the key to the Pensione that Purdy forgot to return and carried to the airport in his pocket. That turned out to be too easy, so i amused myself watching the locals getting fired up with Japan kicking South Korean arse in the Baseball.

I eventually found some free internet terminals, but they didn't have keyboards, so I slowley checked my emails using the on screen keyboard. What fun!

The flight was pretty uneventful, and I ended up taking the train and a taxi close to the dodgy hostel I booked, as the bus didn't seem to be running. I was probably just at the wrong stop though. I was seriously concerned about the dodginess of the hostel walking in, but the room turned out to be clean, and with a bathroom.