Greetings fellow readers of gpantrip.com I am in the best of moods, the last 24 hours of Kyoto have been the best ever, I will explain as much as I can but it has been so insightful, I do not believe I will be able to fill this post with as much as i have gotten during the time I last posted…
Seriously 10 minutes after I last posted I ran into my first Japanese English practicing dude, I was walking on the way back to the hotel and this old Japanese guy out of nowhere started walking straight up to me and said ”Welcome to Kyoto! Welcome to Kyoto! the best city in the world!” (I have now proclaimed him as president of the I love Kyoto fan club), I spoke to him for about 20 mins about various things, he would shoot questions like it was the end of the world. I answered as much as I could and really enjoyed talking to him, I ended up correcting some grammar in a English/Japanese dictionary he was writing (he was professor at university).
After that is a bit of a blur but i think we went out to get some dinner somewhere, as it was raining most of the day we didn't do much, in the morning we found ourselves on a not so raining day but fuck it was cold, out of all the days this was the most unpleasant but we made the most of it and caught the train to see some of the temples in Kyoto, it was very cool, very old school and nice to walk around and look at, we got many photos, but the highlight being meeting up with school students on excursion from somewhere in the south of japan, i believe they were in year 78 of Australian schooling and were trying to show there English skills they had learned recently, they were very shy but we tried to encourage them, there teachers must have know English speaking people would be at the tourist:y attractions as they had prepared in class letters to hand to people and i believe the girl that handed us the note said `please take this letter with you to read later as a gift from our hometown` it was very sweet and we got many photos with them, afterwards we took the tour, minus the school children and ran into a fellow aussie touring japan, along with a fellow tourist from south america, we joined paths and walked the route together, taking each others photos and keeping company it was a pleasurable experience, soon after we parted ways on good terms.
Later on we tried to visit another temple in the outskirts of Kyoto but because of our lack of knowledge of the bus system ended up taking the wrong bus, then missing our stop and ending up where we started, it was funny and depressing at the same timeeeeeeee… later on tonight after Bayon got some recommendation on good bars in town we ended up at the `a bar` which was also a highlight, it had all the touristy mementos on the way and we added our contributions, we had a great meal and drinks in the bar, although pricey a worth wild experience.
i must bid you farewell but hope to check in on mondayish when we are in Osaka, our next stop on this amazing journey i am partaking on… hope to hear from you all/
cheers,