Sunroute Tsu

... up an itinerary.

1. Religious Buildings: Temples, Shrines, Churchs, and Mosques
2. Museums (excluding ones with specific themes)
3. Palaces, Mansions, Residential Houses of Famous people
4. Gardens, Parks, Botanic Gardens, Zoological Parks

Especially big cities have a tendency to advertise these possibly boring sites for tourism. Needless to say, interesting sites depend on individuals, though.

... 380;yć słuchawki i posłuchać team radio. Jednak wystarczyło odwrócić się w stronę przeszklonej ściany i można było obserwować wszystko na żywa i na gorąco. Loża posiadała także prywatną trybuję zlokalizowaną tuż nad garażem BMW Sauber, z której spokojnie można było przyglądać się serwisowaniu samochodów i pracy zespołu.

Wspomnę ...

We did the usual disembarkation and re-boarding to go through security in Nagoya. I threw the Japanese quarantine inspectors into a tizzy. I saw there was no line for the security checkpoint and didn't see them at the far end of where the line normally is, so I jumped the barrier and almost violated their quarantine. The decided I didn't have swine flu and let me through. I had only a few minutes between when I got to the gate and we started to board.

... on and they wave for us to come in and join the party, They were all dancing around and singing just having a blast, they even had musical instruments, as you will see in the photos, Really awesome time, Great people, And i swear the tiniest lil club I've ever been too like the size of a closet! but damn they got it loud! Bout 5 am or so we headed home coz taro had to work in the morning, lucky for myself i do not have that problem for a fair while longer, ha ha.

... That evening I went to Gion with one of my roommates. This is a bustling area full of shops and bars and purported to be a good spot to see Geisha - I didn't see any, although another roommate seemed to see them everywhere she went and had a whole digital card full of photos and videos. We walked along a dim little side street lined with historic looking bars and restaurants, and perused some of the fashionable boutiques in the area.

... do we!

Other people we found on the way:

2 really sweet Japanese girls in the bar we got the dog from. After we went back and gave them a picture of the dog having a beer with us and one of him looking out towards the horizon, they gave us free beer!

2 extremely helpful people on the same day, one in the museum of Contemporary Art and one in HMV, without them, our day would just not have been the same.
2 guys at the bar in Kamakura ...

... candy..i mean how much cold coffee in a can you drink. Oh yes beer is nice and you can drink it on the train, on your bike , anywhere ...now this is what we need for Australia day, haha go public drinking * Gaijin avoiding: yes I don't go out of my way too talk to Caucasian foreigners which is apparently a real strange phenomena. I have no idea why when i wouldn't normally talk to someone in my own country just because they looked like me???why start now ...

... out to catch some fresh fish to then dice it up into some raw niceties! He then took in an early night as I watched a film and crashed out too. The next day (24th), Mike wanted to head over to the Aquarium. I had figured that during the few weeks of my stay in Osaka, I would be doing certain things twice with Mike coming to stay. Luckily we managed to do things that I actually didn't mind seeing twice, the aquarium was one of them. Unfortunately though it was a Saturday, so we ...

... forested mountains. Standing in downtown Kyoto, it was easy to forget you were surrounded on all sides by ancient mountains and forests, but out here in the smaller towns there was no way around it. The path lead up a short distance, past a small temple, to the front gate of the Iwatayama Monkey Park. There were no other tourists in sight as it was still quite early in the morning, which was fine with me. As nice as the temples and shrines had been the day before, I ...

... surrounding the station. We'd find much nicer places later on, but the walk from Tour Club to Nijo-jo offers little to inspire the traveler besides the outrageous number of miniature cars that dar back and forth down the tiny streets of Kyoto. When they say minivan, they mean it. They look like Micro Machines. Japan must be one of the only countries where a Volkswagen Beetle looks like a full-size family sedan. Back home, my Civic was a compact, but here it would look like a fancy limo ...