Kyoto musings

Kyoto is an interesting city. Up until 150 years ago it was the capital of Japan for 1500 years. Before that the capital was in a nearby town called Nara. Kyoto is an anagram of Tokyo, at least in English. The streets are unhurried and very wide footpaths that are at least double the size of ours with dedicated bike lanes.

I do like this place.

Ate a lot and looked at shops a lot. They have at least one dangerous place here called Yodobashi Cameras. I think it it a national chain. Think of the biggest Myer ground floor in a capital city and the at least quadruple it. Then add 6 floors. When you come into to the ground floors instead of names like Revlon, Shisedo etc coming into view you see Nikon, Canon, Sony. Every model you can think including film. Every accessory any human can think of for photography meets you. There are staff running actually serving and providing advice and help. Nothing is too difficult. Next few floors up have toys, games etc. The higher floors are for more mundane pursuits like air cons, washing machines etc.

A very dangerous place indeed. We had to perform recon here at least 10+ times including having to buy something urgently at 930pm on Sunday night :-)

It was day 3 and 4 now in Japan. We got a bit asianed out on food so we had KFC for lunch. The chicken and variety was great, the chips were a little mundane compared to back home, not so much MSG, if any. We continued that theme in the evening. We went to Maccas. Dom had an Ebi burger, (prawns) in a meal. I overloaded and had a double quarter pounder meal which cost $7.

Blogs have slowed, lots of travel. More coming soon.