We have nowhere to stow our bags so we have to carry them everywhere so we take our time walking around the town stopping at pretty much every shop to look at all the touristy souvineers as an excuse to put down our bags.
After a little while we grab lunch in this little Soba/Udon bar restaurant (one of the little ones with a few chairs around the cooking area, Very Japanese). I have some cold Soba noodles (I love those things!) and Lauren has some Tsukimi noodles, which I make a hash up of reading the Kanji on the first try but with a bit of help we get there.
After lunch we have a couple of hours so we find this little hot spring foot bath thing and just sit there chatting and smiling at the other people as they come to use the pool and leave.
Lauren spots that one of the old ladies at the foot spa is wearing a jacket that says "Je suis le king of pop"! COOL!
The bus to Kyoto only takes 4 hours but the day is getting on so we head to the hostel that I tried getting reservations in by email. Somtimes I hate email. They had no idea who we were and we soon find out that everywhere is booked for...
GOLDEN WEEK!
If you dont know about GOLDEN WEEK then be warned! Everyone Goes On Holiday At The Same Time! for one week. Whats with that?!
Everyone pours out of the big cities to the country side or the historical towns/cities leaving thousands of empty homes, Thousands of booked up hostels and lots of waiting time on the motorway(the GOLDEN WEEK traffic jamswere on the news)!
So there is nowhere to go right now, except that the guy running this place has another hostel around the corner where we can sleep in the common room after it shuts! Bless him and Bless Futons!
We have to wait untill it shuts at 11 and we have to be up and out before it opens at 8 but awsome.
We stay up and have a chat with some of the other people staying at the hostel and before long the guy on the front desk at this place (Tour Club Hostel, its not a tour club its just called that) comes in and says "Its a full house night, everybody gets free sake!" WOOP! FREE SAKE! Bless Nick (Thats his name)
He comes in to drink with us and we start playing a game of Pirate in the barrel, the one where you stick little plastic knives in the barrel and if you hit the wrong hole the pirate pops up. Pirate pops, take a shot.
Nick does a couple of impressions of a Japanese comedy character "Hard Gay Man", hes pretty good at it! and we sing a bit of the ending theme to Naruto Shippuden.
Everyone goes to bed Sake Happy.
BACHIKOI!
If you dont know about GOLDEN WEEK then be warned! Everyone Goes On Holiday At The Same Time! for one week. Whats with that?!
Everyone pours out of the big cities to the country side or the historical towns/cities leaving thousands of empty homes, Thousands of booked up hostels and lots of waiting time on the motorway(the GOLDEN WEEK traffic jamswere on the news)!
So there is nowhere to go right now, except that the guy running this place has another hostel around the corner where we can sleep in the common room after it shuts! Bless him and Bless Futons!
We have to wait untill it shuts at 11 and we have to be up and out before it opens at 8 but awsome.
We stay up and have a chat with some of the other people staying at the hostel and before long the guy on the front desk at this place (Tour Club Hostel, its not a tour club its just called that) comes in and says "Its a full house night, everybody gets free sake!" WOOP! FREE SAKE! Bless Nick (Thats his name)
He comes in to drink with us and we start playing a game of Pirate in the barrel, the one where you stick little plastic knives in the barrel and if you hit the wrong hole the pirate pops up. Pirate pops, take a shot.
Nick does a couple of impressions of a Japanese comedy character "Hard Gay Man", hes pretty good at it! and we sing a bit of the ending theme to Naruto Shippuden.
Everyone goes to bed Sake Happy.
BACHIKOI!
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