I am very grateful that so much essential travel information is in English, and find it hard to imagine the response would be very positive in England if the case was made for us to translate our signs, announcements and tickets into another language for the ease of foreigners. In Europe I find even my basic Italian often gives me some assistance since it is so close to the Latin roots, but to be somewhere with very little common ground, offers a very new experience. I cannot begin to imagine how difficult Martin’s first trip here mush have been, and I have a new respect for my Victorian character Minerva Powtalotte, a Japanologist loosely based on Isabella Bird who travelled all over the world, including to Japan in 1878, just after the borders were reopened in 1868.
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