Tea and breakfast.

The markets.

The gardens and parks.

The cows.

Sights.

Great designs.

Roses with sunset colours in Regent Park and Londons oldest underground railstation.

We stopped for afternoon tea in Bourton-on-the-water on our way to London.

In the neat garden. Bowness, Lake
District.

Highland cows and I have both hairstyle and colour in common. I like them. Especially when they graze outside the bedroom window.

Also seen with Hogwarts Express on it.

Edinburgh!

Holiday, yay!

This year Nara, the first capital of Japan (710-794), celebrates 1300 years. Also a place I once spent a year in in my youth. But that’s a different story.

Today it was almost 40C and I had a meltdown after meeting the first deers in the park. A friendly lady in the restaurant where we were sitting noticed my distress and came to the rescue with a bag of ice. Back on my feet we visited the great Buddha in Todaiji temple, constantly stalked by cheeky deers.

Back in Kyoto after a nice bath there’s tonight’s sukiyaki to look forward to. I will become fat as a buddha.

Greco-chan, cat in Nara book store.

Hungry deer in Nara park. Photo: A. Bergek

Kyoto is cool. Not in a weather forecast kind of way though. The past days the temp has hit the high 30’s.

Photo: A. Bergek

Phew!

A 2.20 hour trip from Tokyo we arrive in an even hotter Kyoto. 38 degrees C and our brains are about to shut down to save energy. But I’m in a yukata, sitting on a porch with a cold beer, an eight course traditional dinner, listening to the frogs croak and the carps jumping in the pond below our feet.

Tomorrow it is time to revisit my beloved Nara. And the cheeky deers!

Testing testing.

Hope to, in this way, keep Monologuer up to date when I go to Japan tomorrow. Let’s hope Wordpress on iPhone and Japanese wifi want to play.

Sayonara for now!