This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 316: November 12, 2015
Diary entry:
Well, this was an exciting start of the day!
When we called the Embassy on Tuesday night to ask about our missing passports, the duty officer told us to make an appointment for Thursday morning, but to also call the embassy first this when they opened at 8:30 AM to make sure they knew we were coming, and that it was an emergency.
So when I called at 8:30, and was on hold until after 8:45 (which made me nervous since our appointments were for 9:00 AM and I didn’t want to be late), I was thrilled to be told that they had received a fax yesterday from the Narita Airport police that our passports had been recovered, and were available to be picked up at the Airport Police Station lost and found!
Called the airport police to confirm that the passports were found and were in fact there and available for pickup, and after confirmations all around, a total change in today’s plans.
No longer needing to go to the Embassy, and without the specter of spending the next weeks chasing down new passports, updating all of our residency cards, etc. in the Netherlands, and all other kinds of hassle, instead we just had to make sure we made it to Narita in time to pick up our passports before the lost and found closes at 5:15. The only downside there…our flight is not until 8:40PM, so we’re going to have a few hours sitting in the low cost Terminal 3 until flight time.
But first, we had some time to run over to Shibuya for some photos and a visit to the Disney store there, Erin’s favorite, and then we had to take a 1:30PM airport limo bus.
Luckily, Narita Terminal 3 has a really nice food court area before security, with plenty of tables, so we were able to sit back, have some lunch (which I must admit, was really high quality for airport food-court food), and relax for a while.
And enjoy a happy reunion with our passports!
It was a late night though, as our flight didn’t arrive in Hong Kong until 1:00AM, and we still had to taxi back to our hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui and reconsolidate our luggage a bit, since we have dinner plans tomorrow and won’t have too much time to repack before our flight to the Netherlands on Saturday. It was 3:30AM before I finally managed to get to sleep.
Ugh!
The Beer:
Name: Minoh (Koi-Koi) Stout
Style: Stout
Producer: A.J.I. Beer Inc.
Alcohol content: 5.5%
Bottle size: 0.33 l
Purchased from: Osaka prefecture store in Tokyo
Minoh (Koi-Koi) Stout from Minoh Beer, A.J.I.Beer from Minoh, Osaka. Brewed to avoid bitterness, this beer featured a nice dark chocolate aroma. Dark coffee and chocolate flavors. For a regular stout, quite impressive.
