Japan 2011

Good morning everybody. Are currently in Kyoto in Japan on Holiday but will be back in Hongkers on Monday the 25th of July. It has been a kind of stress full start to our summer holiday this year. As we finally got the holiday, we had a meeting with our landlord about extending the lease on the house where we'd lived for the past 4 years. I didn't turn out that good, he wanted a 45 percent rise on the rent. 45 percent! We offered him a 25 percent rise, even that was also a lot, but he was persistent - that greedy man - on the 45 percent, so we declined and suddenly found us in the situation that we had to find a new place to live before we could go on holiday.
Thank god that we'd been a bit lazy and hadn't booked the trip yet, and so we spend the first holiday week on house hunting. And as it was looking the most desperate, we got a lucky stroke and found a place not that far away from where we are now, the same kind of apartment with a roof top and a view onto the water, and the best thing; to the same rent as we have been paying for the last 4 years.
With that settled, we could start concentrating on the summer trip to Japan.