Maid cafés (メイドカフェ Meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses dressed in maid costumes act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) in a private home, rather than as café patrons. The first permanent maid café, Cure Maid Café, was established in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan in March 2001, but maid cafés are becoming increasingly popular. As they have done so, the increased competition has made them become crazier in order to attract customers. They have also expanded overseas to countries like China, South Korea, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada and the United States.

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I haven’t given up.

I had a great weekend with my family and spending time with my niece and nephew remind me what is important in life!

I’m back home again and I’ll be at work in the morning, but I’m looking forward to the next adventure.

The world is a smaller place but I still have much to see! I have itchy feet to see New Zealand, Canada and Europe with the highlight for me being Scotland. I feel a strong ethnic connection through my father to Scotland.

But today I have to concentrate on this interview. I can go to Europe soon I hope. See snow. Experience the cultures. Check out the Nurburgring and the mountain biking scene.

The place where I’m currently staying I narrowly miss hitting exit signs, smoke alarms and fire sprinkers with my head and earlier I collided with a ceiling in a corridor.

The plane seats felt like a tight prison – dreading another passenger potentially sitting in front of me, trapping and pinning me by reclining the seat onto my legs.

Luckily I had the seat beside me and the seat in front of me free so I managed to stick one leg under the seat next to me and one directly ahead under the seat in front of me. I’m not sure if I’ll be so lucky for the return trip to Australia.

I’m tall, but I’m certainly not a giant. What do the truly tall people do whilst travelling? It must just become habit to duck your head under every doorway and eventually just walk with a hunch.

The other area I’ve found height challenging whilst travelling is the bed length. I have a Queen sized bed at home, but unfortunately hotels typically have double or single beds in the ‘standard’ length. With my head against the headboard my feet dangle by a foot off the end of the bed which can get a bit uncomfortable.

I’ll write more when I have access to faster internet. I’ll hopefully be able to upload some pictures.

Checked the weather over there: 32c and 95% humidity. And I thought it was sticky in Brisbane this week!