Al & Deb are live from Akita, Japan 🇯🇵

Al & Deb are live from Akita, Japan 🇯🇵

So, let me just get rid of that. All right. So, uh, yeah. Okay. I’m just going to get rid of those things up there so we can see what the comments are happening. [Laughter] That’ll be right. Put my finger there and they don’t come up.
Yeah. So, okay. Anyway, she can start talking. You don’t have to wait till anyone’s on if you don’t want to.
Okay.
Because, um, what happens is you can replay it after it. So, we’re just explaining rules for lives because we’re still new to lives. So,
it’s something we’re not used to. So, we’re if we make mistakes here, so
I know. Look how red I am. Go. I went swimming today in the pool for about an hour on the cruise ship and my forids like a lobster you guys. Anyways,
yeah. So, we are currently in Akita [Music] Akita, Japan, which is on the northern tip of the northern island.
And um we’re on a cruise. And the cruise has been sailing now for 2 days for from Yokohama.
Uhhuh. And uh it’s a nine day cruise.
You’re just breathing in my face.
I breathe. At least I’m breathing. That’s a good thing. Um
yeah, it’s a nine night cruise.
Yeah. Hi, Hikey. I hope I get that right. Hikey. Hikey. Yeah. Anyways, um so yeah, we’re on a cruise that goes around Japan for 9 days.
Yeah.
And we thought Yeah. Go on. I was just going to say this is our first stop. Hi. um our first stop. But unfortunately, we didn’t even go into town, did we?
Yeah. So, this is the reasoning. Um we got off the ship at 9:00 this morning when apparently everyone else on the ship got off at 9:00 this morning.
Hey, Kishanka. And uh to get the bus into Akita, it was I think it was 50 US $50 return.
Was that for both of us?
Yeah. So it’s like I don’t know 80 Australian dollars.
Yeah. So that’s just a shuttle bus into town. 15 minutes into town. So we thought, okay, we won’t do that. We’ll get a cab.
We’ll get the um Japanese Go Jack or Japanese. Oh yeah, the
Yeah. So, first we looked at the cabs and there was about two or 300 people lined up in the cab rank and we went outside and we watched how many cabs were coming and there was like one cab every 5 minutes. So, those people lining up down there would still be lining up. It’s crazy.
Yeah, it was um a long line for the taxi. So, we thought, okay, well, let’s get the Grab app for Japan and get some um Japanese data. And um I used an online eim to do that. But even doing that, it was just like there were no taxis available. So we decided, okay, well, we don’t want to walk like I don’t know how long it was into town. It was a half an hour drive. Too far to walk. It’s hot.
So we weren’t going to walk in 30°. So anyways, we ended up getting back on the ship
and decided to um go for a swim instead. And we thought we’ll head out about, you know, one or two o’clock and see what it’s like then because the the ship sails again at
Do you call it sails for a big cruise ship?
Cruises.
The ship cruises again at 5:30.
Yep. So, we could go into town, but really when we looked what was um on the brochure to see in Aikita, there were dogs, which we love dogs, but I don’t really
want to cuz they’re the Aida dogs. They’re a special breed of dogs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They’re cute. Really cute. But
I didn’t come all this way just to see those dogs.
No.
Yeah. So, we decided to stay on board. So, we’re going to talk a little bit
things too to see.
Well, yeah, but we didn’t see them. No.
So, we’re waiting to talk to other people that have come back from the source excursion and we’ll enjoy it through their experiences, I think. Yeah. So, um let me just have a look at some of these questions.
Yeah.
After the cruise, are you back in Bali? Yes.
Hey, how you going brother?
We will come back to Bali around I think it’s the 14th of July. So, we’re back in Bali for another however long. I don’t know.
Five, seven years. Don’t know.
Three years, I don’t know. Who knows? One year, I don’t know. Yeah.
Um, Eevees, can you guys adopt me? Sure. Why not?
Send photos. Power of love. Oh, that’s sweet.
Yeah. Good on you, Fish. Um, now, so we we’ll start from the beginning, and we did talk about this a little bit, not yesterday, the day before, but we’ll go through it again. Uh we flew to Japan, caught the uh what type what is the train? The T X N.
It’s a fast train. The JR East Green Line.
The NX Express. Now, this is it’s not the fast train. It’s not the B train, but it was still fast.
It was fast.
Yeah. And uh it was luxury. It was like it was a great ride down. It was an hour to get to Yokohama, and we stayed there.
You’re pretty easily impressed for luxury. I could get used to it. I could get used to it.
I think Alan’s thing of luxury is the seats were big and he had lots of knee space and there was a toilet on the carriage.
I didn’t have to sit with my legs I didn’t have to sit with my legs apart just so I could fit in the seat. That’s luxury.
So anyway, we got to Yokohama and we stayed there for the night in Rose Hotel which was a good stay.
It was right across from Chinatown and it was very close to the pier. So, um, yeah, it was I don’t know about 125 bucks or something, which was really good for the location.
Now, this is where it gets really good because I’m really impressed with uh Pacific. What’s the ship? Pacific
Diamond Princess P Diamond Princess.
There nothing like it. Diamond Princess. I’m really impressed with their organization because we’ve done a lot of cruises. We’ll get that in a minute. No, I’m going to now. Okay,
this is my medallion.
Yeah. Well, so I don’t know if you guys have been on cruises before, but one of the the challenges is getting on the ship when they’re putting two two and a half thousand people on a ship.
It’s a slow process.
Slow process.
It took us from the moment we got off out of a taxi, handed our bags in, I think it was 5 minutes, and we were on the ship ordering our first drinks. And that’s because we’re now platinum. Yeah. So the system here, I don’t know if it’s just because it’s in Japan or the cruises got their act together really well, but yeah, 5 minutes to get through.
Well, the Japanese are like super organized. Anyway, so I’d say that does play a big part in getting a like they were on it. We didn’t even print out our
baggage tickets or anything like that. So, even um though we didn’t do that, it was just like, “Yep, go to this line. Someone did it for us.
Oh, we’ll take your bags for you.
Take them.” And then keep walking this way. And like I said, 5 minutes and we’re on the ship, even though there were heaps of people there.
Yeah. And uh I don’t know if this was a good decision or a bad decision, but at the last minute, we decided to get the drinks package. And it’s been 2 days and my head still sore from the first night. You got a 15 drink limit. How much was it for the package?
Um $65 US a day.
So it’s probably around8 that also included internet and that’s how we’re doing this. Yeah.
So
and it’s also coffees and milkshakes and all that sort of stuff
and juices and all those things. So the very first day on the cruise, we did make the most of it. We used up our limits.
Yeah. 15 drinks a day each. And at 2:00 a.m.
We were still at the nightclub.
Yeah. I got someone else to buy me a 16th drink.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then we paid for it. Well, Alan paid for it mostly the next day, didn’t you?
Yeah. I’m still paying for it.
Yeah. This is our second day in or whatever. And he’s still
Yeah.
A bit. Yeah. Food’s excellent. Food’s been really good. Everything’s been really good on this ship.
There’s no complaints at all. There’s a lot of Japanese people as you’d expect. There’s also um a lot of Americans or USA people from USA. There’s a couple of people from England and yeah, North Americans. And there’s a few Aussies. Like we’ve met a couple of Aussies on here, but
Yeah. Yeah.
I’d say we’re not the majority.
Oh, no. No. There’s not a great deal of Aussies. I think they said there was about 100 Australians roughly. There’s no kids. Well, if there if there are kids, it’s um there’s not many. Oh, actually, I’ve been swimming in the adult only pool, so I wouldn’t see them anyways.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, you’re right. Fish man isn’t a camera. Although we like to think he was. Yeah. So, um that’s been our experience so far. Also, like they’ve changed these like I’m a bit fixated on my little medallion at the moment.
Yeah. And I rightly so because I’m impressed too
cuz what you do now is you on the cruises you used to have to tap your card. You’d have your lanyard your card. You tap your card on the door. That would open your door up. You’d tap your card for your drinks. You’d tap your card for everything you wanted to buy. But now with the medallion, all you need to do is walk close to your door and your
door unlocks.
Cabin door unlocks.
You don’t have to get this out. I’ve got mine under my shirt here.
Yeah. I don’t even have to get out.
I don’t have to get it out. I go to the bar.
Your screen on the screen at your door. Your pictures come up to say, “Oh, here you are.
Oh, the door for you.”
I mean, you go up to the bar like I was saying. You don’t even have to show them this because it comes up on their screen that you’re at the bar and they
proximity thing. It reads that you’re close and they just all they do is they look for your picture and go, “Oh yeah, that’s hi Deb. Hi Al.”
Yeah. Let me give you a double. Yeah.
So yeah, they’re um pretty it’s a nice improvement.
Yeah. Um what else has happened on the ship that we’ve seen? We saw the show last night. One of the shows.
Yeah, we saw this show. It was um singers and they you know the standard standard cruise shows that they were all right. Um, yeah. So, we’re on the cruise for another seven or eight days and I think
seven days. Yeah. And we get back to Yokohama, but then we go straight to Hanala airport is I don’t know how to pronounce it, but but then straight back to Bali via the Philippines, but Philippines is only a stop off. Yeah. So, if you got any questions about the cruise or about uh Barley, feel free to type it in there. We’ll answer any questions that you’ve got.
I want to know where ATL is. Panchcho Atlanta from ATL. Atlanta. Georgia. Is it Georgia? Atlanta. I don’t know.
Atlanta. Yeah, I think so. I have no idea.
Georgia. Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, very good. Um, yeah. So, we are just in the process now of getting ready to go back upstairs and drink
have another cocktail or something. And it’s what time is it now? 4:30. So, if we wanted afternoon tea, we could have gone down to the international dining room or up to their um pantry thing up there and they put on afternoon tea between 3:30 and 5:00 and then dinner starts at 5:30. It’s basically food happening all day if you want food all day, but it’s too much.
Yeah, it doesn’t stop. I know on some cruises we’ve been on
you on some cruises we’ve been on,
there’s gaps where you can’t get food and it’s always that time you want to get some food.
Couple hours between each one, which is normal,
but we’ve noticed on this one there’s no gaps. They keep the food going 24/7. Don’t know if it’s 24/7, but it goes
It feels like it.
It feels like it.
Yeah. Yeah.
And they have like the burger bar and they have like the pizza bar and they have an ice cream bar.
Yep.
Lots of different things.
So, yeah. Hi Fee and Bart. Huh?
Hi Fee and Bart.
Hi guys. Have fun from Fee and Bart in Melbourne. Hey. Yeah. So this so far two days through we’re on our third day of the cruise. I would recommend this cruise. So far it’s been pretty damn good.
Yeah. And we’ve got every day up until the second last day, we stop at a different Japanese port. So, even though we didn’t get off at this port, hopefully from here on in, it’s not crazy lines because we don’t do lines, do we?
No, we’re not fans of lines.
We don’t like lines. So, and plus because it was 30° outside, I wasn’t standing in a line for an hour waiting for a taxi.
I think it’s Tayyama tomorrow and Toy I noticed in Toyama there’s a the Citadel fort. We are
there’s a Japanese fort and there’s right all around it there’s a nice park so we might venture there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. What are you doing tomorrow? So Bali Japan is the opposite to Bali and that’s what I’ve noticed. Japan is well organized and uh clean
very clean. And it’s the opposite of Bali. Barley isn’t organized and definitely isn’t clean. But in saying that, I love Barley for that. I love Bali for what it is. But I also love Japan for what it is. They’re both great places.
Um but Barley’s a hell of a lot cheaper. I can tell you that.
Oh yeah, for sure. Heaps heaps better deals in Bali.
Yeah. I’d have to work three weeks just for each taxi fair.
Yeah. Someone’s in SUA in three weeks time. Fifi.
Oh, well, you’ll enjoy it. That’s for sure.
Yeah, that’s home to us. Su. Yeah, we love it.
Yep.
We were talking to other people on the cruise actually last night and um they say that they always stay over in Lean and Cura. And we were talking about them how talking to them about how for people that live in Sonuro, the other side’s called the dark side. So if you want like the nightclubs and clubs and everything, you head over to the other side and
let’s go over to the dark side tonight.
Yeah. Or if you want to chill, just come to Sur. Now, here’s an argument I haven’t solved yet. Someone said to me that Sura is pronounced I know I’m I’m getting there.
is pronounced. Sur with the tongue roll. But I’ve heard you hear nearly every Australian saya. You hear a lot of locals say, which they told me it was, but then I’m starting to hear locals saying it’s No, no, no. Cuz my driver, he like I got a driver to take me to work and home every day. And when I said to him something about, “Oh yeah, blah, blah, blah. At SUA,” and he just laughed at me and he goes, “Not sua. Not. It’s But I can’t do the tongue roll thing. Yeah. Not even gonna try.
No.
Yeah. Anyways,
I think
Hang on. Someone just wrote something. Used to be called small. It’s not much different. It’s not much different cuz we live over there and there’s
Hi, Mom.
Like I think half of Australia now lives in Bali. Half of Australia’s tried to get out of Australia and I reckon all the retirees are in Sonor. All the retirees are in SU. Its expat community is definitely aged.
Oh yeah, I’m young compared to most of them. It’s great. It’s nice though because it’s really nice to live in a quiet area and then like I said if we want to be a bit wild we go over to the dark side but then come back to the quiet again. So yeah it is it is very very quiet.
Jan says hi. Yeah I said hi mom.
Oh okay. Yeah.
All righty. Well I think that is
I think we’ve exhausted what we’ve got to talk about. Yeah.
Anyone else got any final questions? Oh, by the way, I got to try and pronounce the word again. Hakey Alpot. Thanks a lot for watching the entire video. Excellent. You’re off. They say there are over 400 restaurants were rooms in Sur.
I reckon it’s more.
I think you’re right.
Yeah,
definitely right. I don’t know if you watched any other videos, but when we moved to Sur, we started cooking for ourselves because our western habit is that we cook our own meals. It’s probably to do with our age as well. But um we’ve since worked out that it’s not uh financially.
No, it’s much better to Yeah, it’s much better for us just to for our budget. It’s cheaper to
order in or go to restaurants every night when we’re in Sonora rather than cook for ourselves because all the ingredients in the supermarkets if we’re not cooking local dishes and we don’t really know the local dish recipes although we could look it up if we needed to. But
let’s not get carried away.
But uh yeah, it’s so much cheaper just for us to order in. And everything’s imported in the supermarkets in Bali. So, we’re paying like, you know, how you might get a um pasta sauce for, I don’t know, $3. In Australia, it might be $6 now with all the price increases. But I think like a just a jar of pasta sauce is like $859. So, it just worked out easier just to order in. And if those if you are interested, the two that we order from the most at the moment because our tastes keep changing is Flamingo War. Flamingo.
Yeah. And they’re on WhatsApp and they send a menu every week.
Yep. So you can order your meals for the week, whatever you want if you want them.
And they deliver them every afternoon as well at 5:00 or 5:30 in the afternoon. So, you order for the week what you want and their meals are like $7 for um if you have chicken. Um some way they do all different recipes. And the other one we’ve been ordering from lately is Sports
Wrong Sports.
Burung Sports and they do a delivery. They’ve just popped a delivery charge on. But um
they do Aussie wrist holes and it Oh man, they’re good. Makes me feel like home. You do get sick of Indonesian. Yeah. What’s your favorite restaurant in Sinua, guys? Um,
we just cover Oh, the restaurant. Favorite restaurant.
We like going down and having um food along the beach. So, I mean, I like Japan in Seno. Japun.
Japon.
J P U N.
Yeah, Japan. That’s probably my favorite. Um, but any along the beach there,
it just gives you the vibes of, you know, holiday when we’re not really on holiday. So, I like to Yeah. go down to the beach to
Yeah. eat.
But I think the best food we’ve had is Japun. But there’s so many we haven’t had.
We have enjoyed them all. We haven’t. Yeah.
And I can tell you one that’s not a bad night out is what’s the pig one? Oh. Um, Naughty Nuries.
Naughty Nuries, which is on the bypass.
Try Old Brick Behind 101.
Old brick.
All right, we’ll do that.
We’ll stick that on the list. I do have a list that I’ve um written down at home of ones that we have to try because like you said, there’s so many different ones. So, yeah, that’ll definitely go on the list there, too. Next port. Some Jen just asked what the next port is.
I think it’s Toyama. Oh, what’s the one we eat at at the beach in
Toyama? Toyama. And the one that we’ve eaten at the beach with you was Retro on the beach.
Who we Who was that with? Oh, the one we had to the beach, Jan. That was um
Retro on the beach. Retro. We’ve tried um like quite a few since then and um they’ve all been good. Like Souls on the Beach, that was good. If you ever if you want to stay at a fivestar a fivestar motel on the beach that’s got two good restaurants
and a nice bar the tree bar or whatever
it’s Maya
Yeah, we’ve been to the restaurants there. They’re really good, too.
Yeah, we haven’t stayed in the motel, but
we don’t need to.
No, but um you went to I went to the restaurant with some girls. Um and the restaurant was really good. for an hour while I was at the restaurant.
Was the bike rider?
Yeah, he he joked me. And then he went to the bar, the tree bar, wasn’t it? At
I think that’s what it’s called. Yeah.
Yeah, I think so. On the other side of
the beach side.
Yeah. And said that was good, too. So, that’s something I want to go and that’s a bar I want to try when we get back.
Yeah. Yeah.
Anything else?
No, that’s it. All right. Well,
we’re going to go and get a drink now. So, in probably 2 days, we’ll do another live around this time um if we’re back on board. But I’ll I’ll send a little Facebook message first to say we’re going live so you know.
Yeah. So, have your questions ready.
Yeah, we’re happy to answer anything.
All right. Thanks for watching. Thank you.
And we’ll see you soon.
Cheers, guys.
Bye.

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