Look at how out of practice I am at the walk-talk piece to camera! On Race Around the World these were regular fodder, and we were told explicitly:
Always shoot landscape, never portrait
Centre the subject, unless you have a good reason
Clean the lens
Still, in fairness, RATW was 26 years ago, Instagram is the hungry heathen that loves portrait mode, and in this case the light was too bright to see ourselves on the screen.
My big news is that Harry and I have hit Tokyo, for his first trip overseas and my first since the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The upshot is that the two Wilsons in our family least able to hold onto their belongings are travelling together.
So far I’ve only attempted to donate headphones to a Shibuya cafe ((they were on the table 1.5 hours later) and Harry has lost the elastic bands for his braces, worth about 2500 yen. ($2.50)
He has however marvelled at my ability to misplace a train ticket, and joined decades of friends and family members who simply cannot believe that passports, wallets, coins and the total contents of my pockets are on the ground again. In the words of uni friend Elise Coughlin, who travelled with me in 1994, “it’s unbearable travelling with somebody who has so many pockets”.
Today we go to the fish market and TeamLab Planets. We’re having a brilliant time. Harry even remembered our passports were in the safe when we changed rooms at the hotel because we had a faulty shower. I think he takes after Tam after all.
UPDATE - I JUST RECEIVED THIS EMAIL
Lucky we Mum named that one Harry! Still, you remembered the passports. There might be hope for you.
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