Hey, guys!!! Oh my god, it`s AMAZING!!!!! We looked round Kyoto today and it is beyond beautiful! I`ve seen 2 temples and a shinto shrine and they were just unlike anything else! I have loads of pictures so I will show you - it was insane. Have bought some gorgeous bright green and yellow shiny new nike trainers for twenty quid!!!!!!!
Also bought bento goodies for home (including 200 peices of plastic grass for diveders from the 100 yen shop!!) Bought you a talasmen thing from the shrine for coven and the monk guy prayed over it for you when I bought it! How awesome is that! Have eaten no western food since thursday and intend to continue that way!
Natalie and I have had 2 proper communal baths already and we`re having another tonight. It was terrifying at first but once I got used to it it was incredible. So relaxing!
Am speaking loads of Japanese and can feel my accent improving. Japan is even more than I thought it would be!
I slept on a traditional bed on the tatami mats last night!!! I drempt that you were outside in the car and we were supposed to go shopping so in my half-sleep I woke up, turned on the light and started lookibg for my bag before U realised I was dreaming!
Just had some delicious sushi obento for tea, yummmmmmm! The apples here are HUGE! Like twice the size of a normal apple! None of us slept on thursday night and stayed up until 3PM English time the next day! But luckily I am only the tiniest bit jet lagged and even that is coubnterracted by my sheer JOY!
Tomorrow we get up at 5AM Japanese time to fly to Kagoshima and then we`ll look around for a bit. The youth hostel is amazing! I am probably missing loads out because so much as happened that I can`t remember it right now but everything has been just awesome all the time, even mundane things like buying lunch or the toilets!
Ohhh, the first glimpse of Japan I got out of the plane window was of some really gorgeous misty mountains and that was just about as exciting as anything EVER! The fooooooooooooooood, oh, the food! I had salad for breakfast, but apparently that is perfectly acceptable!
In the midst of all the shopping and sight-seeing, we went for a spot of green tea in a gorgeous place in Kyoto and there were loads of women dressed as geisha walking around and SO many schoolchildren that kept looking at us!
Right, that is all I can think of at the moment (but I am sure there is loads more) so it`s time for the ofuro! There are loads of people here tonight so it won`t just be Natalie and I! Eeeeek!
Goodbyeeeeeeeeeee for now, will email when I can!
I love you all!
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