Today started quite early as I think I have over shot with my sleeping adjustments after a quite interesting breakfast of salad, sausages, miso soup and croissants we walked over to the train station for our trip out to Kamakura.
The town is "home of the Samurai" and also home to a large number of Buddhist temples. At the first of these I was accosted by an elderly man. At first he seemed to be begging but on listening to him it turned out that he had been learning English for the last 4 years and only wanted to receive a letter from someone in English.
We toured several temples during the day, as they were spread out we had a moderate amount of walking to do, including quite a lot of up and downhill to cover.
For lunch we stopped off at a small place selling sausage-inna-bun (that's a Pratchett reference for those who don't know). Emily had a "Pizza sausage", which had a vein of cheese running down the middle and was strongly tomato flavoured. Apparently very nice.
After taking the hiking trail down into Hase we stopped at the Big Buddha. This is where Rolf is pictured today.
From there we hopped on a small local train and then back on the mainline train to Tokyo where we went and had a look at the Imperial palace as the sun set. We then made our way to the restaurant we'd booked last night and ate a rather nice meal. I've had neither sushi, nor sashimi while here yet but I plan to change that when we find somewhere suitable. I had some pan fried scallops and half a plate of vegetable tempura and Emily a pork soup and tofu thing and the rest of the tempura.
After that it was a nice stroll back to the hotel where I promptly fell asleep while trying to look at the photos I'd taken.
The town is "home of the Samurai" and also home to a large number of Buddhist temples. At the first of these I was accosted by an elderly man. At first he seemed to be begging but on listening to him it turned out that he had been learning English for the last 4 years and only wanted to receive a letter from someone in English.
We toured several temples during the day, as they were spread out we had a moderate amount of walking to do, including quite a lot of up and downhill to cover.
For lunch we stopped off at a small place selling sausage-inna-bun (that's a Pratchett reference for those who don't know). Emily had a "Pizza sausage", which had a vein of cheese running down the middle and was strongly tomato flavoured. Apparently very nice.
After taking the hiking trail down into Hase we stopped at the Big Buddha. This is where Rolf is pictured today.
From there we hopped on a small local train and then back on the mainline train to Tokyo where we went and had a look at the Imperial palace as the sun set. We then made our way to the restaurant we'd booked last night and ate a rather nice meal. I've had neither sushi, nor sashimi while here yet but I plan to change that when we find somewhere suitable. I had some pan fried scallops and half a plate of vegetable tempura and Emily a pork soup and tofu thing and the rest of the tempura.
After that it was a nice stroll back to the hotel where I promptly fell asleep while trying to look at the photos I'd taken.
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