A visit to Kyoto is not complete without a visit to the market. It's a bit like a Turkish market, closed in and a cacophony of stalls, especially everything pickled. From there we walk to famous PontoCho the geisha area, expensive restaurants and nightclubs, alive at night but calm during the day. I shop for nice fabric bag and scarf souvenirs at a good price.
That night we revisit the resto that Ted & Tony visited 6 years ago for old times' sake. It's a sushi restaurant and we are served a beautiful array of sashimi decorated with a whole fish only the2 tail and head left intact. I am sure he goes back into the freezer for the next tourists, but impressive all the same. I m getting the hang of this sushi and sake routine...
We wander home through the warm streets, lit up for a festival at the temple near us for 2 weeks with lanterns along all the streets, charming really. We have found baby huge juicy figs, bananas, and the big sweet grapes that are famous here (you can go grape picking at the farms if you want...) and - more sake! WE sleep well...
It's the first time in 400 years that our local temple has been lit up at night, and we go the first night and are given a special memento from a buddhist monk, not sure what it says but we are protected now...all very inpressive and makes returning home each evening lovely in the otherwise soso backstreets between two major temples.
That night we revisit the resto that Ted & Tony visited 6 years ago for old times' sake. It's a sushi restaurant and we are served a beautiful array of sashimi decorated with a whole fish only the2 tail and head left intact. I am sure he goes back into the freezer for the next tourists, but impressive all the same. I m getting the hang of this sushi and sake routine...
We wander home through the warm streets, lit up for a festival at the temple near us for 2 weeks with lanterns along all the streets, charming really. We have found baby huge juicy figs, bananas, and the big sweet grapes that are famous here (you can go grape picking at the farms if you want...) and - more sake! WE sleep well...
It's the first time in 400 years that our local temple has been lit up at night, and we go the first night and are given a special memento from a buddhist monk, not sure what it says but we are protected now...all very inpressive and makes returning home each evening lovely in the otherwise soso backstreets between two major temples.
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