Japan

Go Gamba Osaka

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go gambia
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Yes when in Osaka do as the Osakans do. Have a picnic lunch in Expo Park 70 (yes still lots of cherry blossoms) and then go to a game of football at Expo 70 Commemorative Stadium.

For the record lunch was a bento box from Hankyu Department Store (after we couldn’t find the San Diego Curry Bar　- yes B and T we need better directions and we didn’t have your number to call).

Also for the record our adopted team won 2-0 against Chizu (I think that is who they were playing.) The supporters were loud and coordinated and no doubt practice their team songs in karaoke bars!

Kym

Promises

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Promises
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Well Kyoto has certainly been enjoyable and to celebrate our last full day it turned on blue skies and 18c. It was so good I could even wear the one T-shirt I brought with me.

To live up to the expectations of those you left back in Adelaide, Helen and I continue to do the peace signs in our photos. We’ve also, god forbid gone to Mc Donalds. T and B (and their relatives) advised that it was a better experience than that in Australia! It is true that even the small Maccas in Nara had, for some reason, a grand piano. Helen did have a prawn burger. We can advise that the food still has the same awful consistency and generally poor taste, although I reckon the lettuce is better here.

To continue with the things we promised to do. Helen and I have had our photo taken in a “Astro Boy” booth. We expected stickers but rather got lots of little photos! Reading Japanese would help us there! We’ll try again for a sticker machine!

We’re having some fine Kaseki food served to our room tonight and a final sleep on our futons (yeah!!!) I am looking forward to our western bed on our return.

Kym

Proof

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Proof
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Yes proof that I am willing to be lead astray by my colleagues at work., I got say working those machines in Japanese can be pretty hard。Although I am getting better at the ticket vending machines.

We are currently in the Popeye Media Cafe! I have just ripped my new Gnarls Barkley CD so I can hear it using my Dell PDA on the Shinkasen (the trip from Kyoto to Osaka only took 14 minutes barely enough to time to have a drink and eat a pastry panda),

But these damn Japanese PC:s have all there menus in Japanese and a very tiny spacebar. If I hit the key next to the spacebar all the text I type turns Japanese　ぃけティs！You know I have know idea what I just typed, so if it is rude please forgive me.

Kym

Bamboo grove in Arashiyama

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Bamboo grove
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Arashiyama is a beautiful location, with a number of temples, shrines, and bamboo groves.

As well as the other 100 plus tourists… the main street really is like harndorf. Lots of shops with food, or trickets of some description.

After our walk around the town and the groves, we had a great lunch in a department store at another end of the tram line. The meal was really good… octopus balls in a soup that was continually being cooked. Yummo.

Bike Shop

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Bike Shop
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The perfect bike shop for PF! Cheap bikes around $100 for a folding bike and $130 for a mama-san bike. More photos are on flickr so check them out by clicking on the Flickr badge.

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