As today was going to be sunny, we decide to go to Kyoto, take a little mountain train, and come back by the river (Hozu-gawa).
We stopped for a little bento on the river side...
... and then we headed for the station. All the trains seemed booked up but we were lucky enough to get 2 cancellations. A few hidden tanukis were the to welcome us.
The train tracks winds around the folds of the mountain, following the river.
We stopped at a station inhabited by very neatly organised tanukis...
... and a demon boarded the train and proceeded to borrow people's phones to take selfies with them.
The way down was a bit more chilled out. The 3 men who gently floated us down the river kept joking as they showed us rocks apparently shaped like random things, and we got to see turtles (or tortoises, I can never remember which one is which, ...
(Don't look too hard, I missed them)
...a black kite (tobi in Japanese), ...
... monkeys, ...
... a cormoran(t) (ētone), ...
... and a few herons.
Just before the end of the ride, a boat accosted ours to sell us fresh drinks and nibbles.
We then went for a walk in a bambouseraie.
And as we got back towards the station going to see a few temples on the way, they were of course closed.
Here's the state of my feet at the end of that day :
Yep, that seems to be just from a mosquito bite above the ankle !
Once again, not to worry, my foot shouldn't need sawing off. I'm still walking and the swelling has gone down.
Now here's a cool tree, because cool trees are cool, and to let you know that comments should now work for anyone, registered on anything on not, by selecting "anonymous" in the last of accounts suggested.
We stopped for a little bento on the river side...
... and then we headed for the station. All the trains seemed booked up but we were lucky enough to get 2 cancellations. A few hidden tanukis were the to welcome us.
The train tracks winds around the folds of the mountain, following the river.
We stopped at a station inhabited by very neatly organised tanukis...
... and a demon boarded the train and proceeded to borrow people's phones to take selfies with them.
The way down was a bit more chilled out. The 3 men who gently floated us down the river kept joking as they showed us rocks apparently shaped like random things, and we got to see turtles (or tortoises, I can never remember which one is which, ...
(Don't look too hard, I missed them)
...a black kite (tobi in Japanese), ...
... monkeys, ...
... a cormoran(t) (ētone), ...
... and a few herons.
Just before the end of the ride, a boat accosted ours to sell us fresh drinks and nibbles.
We then went for a walk in a bambouseraie.
And as we got back towards the station going to see a few temples on the way, they were of course closed.
Here's the state of my feet at the end of that day :
Yep, that seems to be just from a mosquito bite above the ankle !
Once again, not to worry, my foot shouldn't need sawing off. I'm still walking and the swelling has gone down.
Now here's a cool tree, because cool trees are cool, and to let you know that comments should now work for anyone, registered on anything on not, by selecting "anonymous" in the last of accounts suggested.
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