Nice.
Today started out with a walk to the golden pavillion, which was very
"golden", the sky was grey today but it didn't actually rain, temple
was stunning, and gardens were nice. Yet again however it had been
torched in the 1950's by an obsessed monk/arsonist, but the rebuilt
version looked like it had been polished a lot.
Martyn may have reached temple capacity today as he seemed more
facinated by the concrete pouring truck next door.
After locating our hotel, and storing our heavy bags, we meandered
toward the path of philosophy, through very pretty Gion however, with
increasing darkness of cloud and the news that our best friends have
safely taken delivery of ava louise from the stork, we changed our
plans as we came across The Miyako Odori performance by Geisha and
Meika.
This was fascinating. To top it off we then saw an actual Geisha
walking down the street . This is quite rare as there are only about
100 Geisha in Kyoto apparently. Wow.
We confess to being a little templed out so wandered back through the
shops happening across another two temples on the way.
Found great present for newly arrived ava louise - her parents will
have fits !
Unfortunatley it was after dinner when we spotted this, the most
massive ice-cream sundae we have seen, it was £30 btw, which is about
the same as we have spent on our entire dinner this evening! The photo
is actually a plastic replica of the dessert, as is common on Japan,
almost all restaurants have either a 3d version of every dish they
serve outside for you to see, or lavish photos in a picture menu- very
handy if you cannot read their menus!
Dinner tonight was about as posh as we have had so far, in a very posh
restaurant under a shipping arcade near our SuperHotel (!) which we
think once we found it, that these are a new thing here with pin
numbers instead of door keys and a pick-and-mix pillow bar
Hakone tomorrow on the Shinkansen, and hopefully a view of Mt Fuji
through the rainy-cloudy-foggy-stuff!
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