Well, it's been a busy week .... or two! Had a great time with Mum and Ben, we played lots of cards, did lots of walking, did lots of sight-seeing, ate lots of strange things and had lots of fun. Mum also took lots of photos!!
Mostly we stayed close to home, but we did go to Osaka and Kyoto (on the big ferry). At Osaka Castle a tour guide latched onto us and took us all around the outside gardens and buildings, telling us all the interesting stories. He showed us a building which was a giant money box - literally - it was a treasury, built to survive natural disasters (especially fire) and very difficult to break into. It even looked like a money box! He also took us to this garden, where Dan took this photo (promised I would give him credit for it :P )
It seems the fires in Australia are big news - all the Japanese people who talked to us asked if our homes were safe.
We also went to Kyoto. Kyoto was interesting - we stayed in a traditional Japanese Inn, ate a very interesting breakfast (dried, salted baby fish, tofu in broth, half raw egg, a variety of pickles, miso soup and rice - the staff were rather surprised when we didn't finish all the food), dodged oh-so-many bicycles while walking on the footpath, found a New South Wales street directory in a bookshop and set off an alarm by trying to look inside a gate at a palace. Setting off the alarm was rather disconcerting, but we noticed that the gardeners didn't even bat an eyelid, and figured that it must happen quite a bit. This was reinforced by the four other people who set off the alarm while we were there. The poor emperor - I wouldn't want to live close to that!!
Anyway, we've left the gai-jin zone and back to being stared at. It was nice to blend in for a few days.
1 comment:
Nice photo Dan!
Thanks for another update Nomes!
:)
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