Lost in Translation

New York bar, Park Hyatt hotel, Tokyo. Connie and I are sipping a fine coctail while listening to live jazz music. This is hardly the lifestyle we were expecting when we embarqued on our backpacking voyage around East Asia. This morning we woke up in our small hostel room in Kuramae - north east of Tokyo -.　Needless to say it had nothing in common with the 5 star hotel we are seating in as I write these few lines down my notebook.

Connie and I really like the movie Lost in Translation so we decided to go and see the hotel that served as the primary location for the shooting: the Park Hyatt hotel - in the Shinjuku area -. After searching for it for a few minutes we located the hotel and decided to have a drink in the bar featured in the movie. At first, we both felt a bit out of place - in our backpacking cloth - in this environment but after a few sips of my New York and Connie`s Cotton Club we eased in our seats and started to enjoy the live music...