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Day 415: in the forest
... to my liking and to shampoo or whatever breaks I take, I simply push 'pause' on the head and the water is blocked until I release it again. I haven't been to any of the famouse bath houses yet and probably won't go, but bathing is a ceremony of its own. Even at home most people have heatable bathtubs. The shower is next to them in the open room without extra cubicle, because people use it to rinse before they enter the tub for soaking, then again rinsing and once ...
The floods are coming!
... I don't know what they're actually called but they're metal bowls set about 7-8 feet from the side of the path beyond the rope. They're small and there are tons of different coins scattered all around them. I was slightly behind a school group so I watched them for a bit to see what they were doing. I'm afraid none of them had very good aim though. Once they had moved on a bit, I got out a coin to try it myself. Sadly, I didn't make it in either, but I hit ...
All temple'd out now
... Golden Pavillion", which was quite funny seeing as my friend was glued to his iphone maps the entire bike ride so how we got lost on route to that one I don’t know! We went to one place where there was a Buddhist Zen garden that a monk had placed 13 different size stones on a bed of perfectly white gravel, and this was supposed to be amazing. Personally I couldn’t quite absorb the enthusiasm of our fellow tourists, for me it was just a bunch of stones. So ...
Kool Kyoto
... br>
You may be interested to know that the favourite blog photo this week is Plaza de Bolivar with 20 hits (bonkers as it’s a year since we’ve been there) and the favourite blog photo of all time is, you’ve guessed it, Plaza de Bolivar with 180 hits (most of our others have about 10 to 20 hits at most).
Next up is a somewhat misjudged trip to the mountains. Expecting freezing temperatures and snow…makes you almost wish you were back in ...
Day 6: Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!
... the angry faces of the passengers we displaced. Next bus will be along in 30 minutes. Sit tight people.
We decided that since we already had the all day bus passes, and we were in that part of town already, we decided to head back to the vending machine restaurant near the Gimmond Hotel that we'd eaten at so many times in the last Japan trip. A very long walk was required because the buses do not go close to the restaurant, so we got off at ...