At the beginning of the year, I found myself at a wedding in New Zealand, talking to the most attractive man I’ve ever seen in my life (read: he had a moustache). One thing led to another, and after taking the moustache for a ride, we decided to do it again. There was one problem: he lives in New Zealand and I live in the UK. The only logical solution was to meet three months later . . . in Tokyo, Japan. Over the next three months, we planned the trip of a lifetime. I love admin: I’m a freak in the sheets (the spreadsheets).

We had a perfectly curated spreadsheet, an email chain, a text thread, a shared playlist; we were even reading the same book so we could book-club it when we arrived in Japan. Some days I’d wake up to a nude from my new friend (hot), but other days I’d wake up to an email summarising his ventures into hotel price-comparison websites (even hotter). We planned a detailed tour of Tokyo’s listening cafes, we bought tickets to Disney Sea, we even booked a night at an onsen with a private outdoor hot tub. It was the best holiday I had ever planned and that planned holiday is still my favourite by far. As for the real thing, all I’ll say is this: I’ll never forget that night in the hot tub . . . where he showed me his favourite episodes of University Challenge.

Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail is on tour until Friday 22 March. Read our review of the show here.