This morning I got an email and an automatic phone call from the Swedish Foreign Ministry telling me that the Swedish Radiation Safety Agency recommended all Swedes within a radius of 250 km from Fukushima #1 to take iodine pills. And if you could not get hold of it they were provided by the embassy.
So better safe than sorry, I got on my bike to Meguro station from where I took the Namboku line to Roppongi-Ichome. While I was riding the subway cell-phones suddenly started to beep in the cart. And the train stopped with the driver explaining that we stopped because of an earthquake. My first while in the subway, though I could feel nothing.
Arriving at Roppongi-Ichome I have to pass through a garden terrace before I could get to the embassy. A plum tree was in full bloom looking like a pink lollipop 🙂
In difference to the US Embassy almost next doors the Swedish Embassy has no guards and is always open. The only person there was a single guy sitting behind glass in the reception. I showed him my passport and I got 10 iodine pills.
Then I went home. Stopping only at Tokyu Store to buy water and strawberries, and then a final stop to get a haircut.
God for you, Johan, bu how about Chie? Where can she get iodine pills?
Give her my regards!
Sorry, Johan – I´m not religious, I just forgot an o. It should be: Good for you…
😀
Elizabeth, Chie will have some of my pills but Sweden will unfortunately not provide any for her 🙁
How long does an iodine pill last? How often are you supposed to take them?
One every second day or two every third day, so the 10 pills will go quickly for the two of us once we start eating it.