昨日の夜、8時半ごろに関空に到着し、関空の日航ホテルに1泊し、今日、リムジンバスで三宮にお昼頃に到着しました。スーツケース2つは昨日の夜のうちに空港から宅急便で送ってもらうよう手配を済ませてありました。明日の午前中に届く予定です。

We arrived at Kansai Airport from Hong Kong around 8:30 last night, and checked into the Nikko Hotel at the airport for the night. This morning we took a limousine bus from the airport to Sannomiya station in Kobe, arriving around midday. We had arranged for 2 suitcases to be sent from the airport to the apartment we are renting and they will arrive tomorrow morning.

今回は4年半ぶりの日本ですし、4年半前までと違って夫とずっと一緒で早く帰らなくてはいけない理由もないので、神戸で1ヶ月過ごすことにしました。宿泊先についてはあまりチョイスがなかったのですが、昔神戸で住んでいた場所からすぐのところに家具付きのマンションを1ヶ月借りています。

As we hadn’t been to Japan for 4 and a half years and from this time, unlike until 4 and a half years ago, my husband is retired so we can stay together as long as we’d like so we decided to spend a month here, in Kobe. There weren’t many choices for the accomodation but we found a furnished apartment we can rent for a month near where we used to live all those years ago.

リビングにラグを敷いてあればコージーなのに、とか、天井の明かりだけではなくランプがあると良いのに、とか、ベッドルームに全く洋服などかけるところがないのが不便だなとか、まぁ、色々とありますが、正直なところあまり期待はしていなかったので、思っていたよりは良い気がします。ただ、ベッドルームの壁の色は衝撃です。

Although we can think of a few changes to improve the comfort here – like a rug in the living room, lamps rather than just ceiling lights, and some wardrobe or at least some hooks we can use to hang some clothes in the bedrooms – it seems better than I expected as I didn’t expect much. I must say, though, that the colour scheme in the bedrooms is quite a shock.