Excitement of travelling in a daze

Tales of travelling maybe not be plant orientated but this is what plants can do to you; make you totally dreamy and walk around in plant inspired haze.

Clearly plants seem to have an effect on me (and Sandy J) because the train trip back to Osaka was somewhat eventful. Starting off trying to get onto the platform and being rescued by a train official who said he would be there in 9 minutes exactly.

Keeping this lone flower company while waiting 9 minutes

We were rescued exactly 9 minutes later by retrieving the pasmo card from the machine.

Station miles from anywhere but rescue was close at hand

Next: we were standing on the wrong platform – no trains but the boy it was shiny clean no wonder no people, rescued by the garbage/refuse cleaner man and told to go to the other platform, along came our train out of trouble for the second time.

Wonder where the rest of the passengers are?

Back in Osaka our next challenge was how to open the locker with our goodies inside – rescued again and such easy instructions press the button and show the bar code – well everyone knows that!
Luggage retrieved it was then a rush to buy the ticket for the Shinkansen, that in hand but where was the platform?? Rescued again thank goodness as we had to get to Sin Osaka to catch the Shinkansen, minutes to spare grabbing a bento box on to the platform, masses of time to spare – 5 minutes bit tight.

On the train heading north in a daze of plants and being pulled from the grips of vagueness several times we sat back enjoyed the bento box as the train raced through the country side of hills dotted with ‘fairy floss blobs’ of cherry blossom, bliss