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Konnichiha from Kyoto
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An early start from Hiroshima (which felt especially early given Michael stayed up late in a Hiroshima Irish bar to watch Man U v Liverpool, with Amy staying up demolishing books) saw us heading back eastwards on the Shinkansen line. Before hitting Kyoto, we decided to spend a day in close by Nara, once Japan's capital. We stuffed both our bags in a SMALL locker in Kyoto station and set off.
Nara is pretty small but contains ...
Temple bells toll and priests chant
... have found out before you need to apply to visit the palace. The palace park is just gardens and paddocks all around the palace walls. As with so many of these kinds of parks they are weedy and overgrown and not in the slightest impressive. Just not what I was expecting.
Of course, both melting, so back down onto the subway and to the hotel.
Once ...
Japan; Shiga prefecture part 1
... laugh derisively at American beef and it's lack of fat and marbling. How they haven't dropped dead of a heart attack yet, I have no idea.
The Japanese really love and appreciate food. There are so many local and seasonal specialties it amazing. This trip I tried sakura ice cream and sakura delicately wrapped in (both were delicious). Although they do import many of their fruits, some are homegrown and a select
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Moving on up
... Philip introduced me to all the necessary customs if the dojo and I went and got changed. For the initial part if the evening I sat with a proud mother of three watching her boys start their first lesson, we were both laughing at times. it's always easy to laugh as an observer but I also had a oody good laugh when was asked to participate once the boys had left. Well Philip was an excellent and patient teacher who commented on the very string grip ...
Crouching Tiger Hidden Geisha!
... safari. We were just walking by as one came out of her tea house and sprinkled salt at the front door. we kept walking around the beautiful streets trying to catch a Geisha. Ben's nose starting bleeding whilst Cath went off and spotted another one scurrying down an alleyway.
At 6 we went to a tea ceremony at a place called En, down a side street behind a Ramen shop, where we drank our freshly frothed green tea. It had a unique taste that neither Cath or ...
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