The Great Travels of Sue

Leopalace. A place of grandiose! Well. . . .it has a nice name! Who doesn't want to live in a Palace?! For those familiar, you will know...

And so I have arrived in Japan. My suitcase was bang on 30kg, which was absolutely fabulous! The flight to Dubai was good. The airport wasn...

In less than 12 hours time I will be on the plane to Narita, Tokyo. My suitcase is packed (weighed in around 28-30kg), I've checked in o...

I collected my work visa from the Japanese embassy in Ireland today, it took exactly seven days to process, which isn't bad. I ordered...

This time 14 days time I will be on my way to Tokyo. My Certificate of Eligibility has arrived and I am going to the Japanese embassy in Dub...

Today did not start well. I was awoken rather rudely at approximately 7.30am by a phone call, which had stopped by the time I fumbled to fin...

Yesterday morning I received confirmation that on the 20th August 2012 I will be getting a flight to Japan. That is roughly 25 days time. I ...

I have a concern that anyone reading this thinks I'm super rich and can easily afford all the associated costs with going to live in Jap...

It is now July, and while I sit staring at my emails hoping to hear about my impending trip to Japan, I have also realised that it is just o...

Because my company book my flights, I do not yet know when I will be leaving, only that it will be "late August". This leaves me w...

Although I do not book my own flights to Japan (the company books them for me), I have spoken to a friend who works with the same company an...

I will be travelling to Japan in August 2012 to work for 4 months, and to Stockholm, Sweden in January 2013, to study in University there fo...