Covid has absolutely increased the cost our family 2 adults 2 teenagers should have been there a few weeks ago but it was cancelled I won’t go at Xmas it’s too cold so we looked at Easter and it was so much more expensive than how original booking so much so that we’ve took a chance on Japan instead even though it’s not open yet as for the same money we were able to get better std flights stay for longer in better rooms than in NY it’s a gamble but we’ve so many hols cancelled we’re used to it and if Japan doesn’t open for blossom season when will it?!
When I moved to Japan in August only Japanese nationals and fully vaccinated foreigners with visas allowing them to live/work in Japan were allowed entry to Japan, with 14 days quarantine - you have to get to a private residence without taking public transport, failing that you have to stay in a government approved hotel at the airport for the 14 days.
Recently they have started approving tourist visas again but only for spouses and children of Japanese nationals living abroad. If you’re from certain countries, where the Japanese government approve of vaccine standards, the quarantine period has been dropped to 10 days.
Australia are claiming to be opening a travel bubble with Japan but there’s no news here in Japan about it.
The extreme measures were really brought in to keep the people coming to Japan for the Olympics under control and realistically Japan can’t keep their borders closed forever. Although, rather selfishly, I am enjoying it here whilst it is quieter without the international tourists, you think Lizzy might have appreciated a quieter New York but it just seems lost on her.
I still can’t believe how unashamedly Lizzy has copied the Halpin sisters. It goes beyond replicating their outfits and IG photos, the infamous orange peel and selfies obscuring part of the face.
Like when Lizzy cut her hair the same length as Sarah’s and dyed it the same colour as Joanna’s. The Halpin sisters took their Rimowa’s to Japan, Lizzy gets her mother to buy her a Rimowa for her birthday and takes it to Japan.
I never really noticed Lizzy expressing any real desire to visit Japan before then and eerily similar to New York. Joanna moves to New York and Sarah spent the majority of the pandemic there, so of course Lizzy must goto New York. Lizzy has been there at least once a year since she started vlogging.
And Lizzy has definitely been getting her lips done for a long time. When we lived near each other I first saw Lizzy in a Tesco, v. glam, and her lips looked ridiculous, I don’t believe anyone would purposely walk around a supermarket pouting that way. That would have been a few months after she moved into her last rental.
