Kyoto III
And the final installment of Kyoto… For tomorrow I leave to go to Tokyo for the Kids Gospel Team.
Yesterday I went to Osaka for a poke around and to meet up with my ex-japanese teacher (no longer my teacher, still japanese).
So I went around midday (I’m on holiday!) and poked around Osaka castle and some other sights for a bit before going to a MASSIVE bookstore to meet up with him. Once I met him at 5:30 I followed him through a maze of shopping malls and streets and through a door and up to the 6th floor of the elevator. When I looked at the sign in the elevator for the 6th floor I was horrified (slightly) to see it was a pub called “The Blarney Stone”. BUT horror was not awaiting. The Irish Pub had one irishman in it, the rest were all ex-pat teachers and workers who wanted some english chat and something cooked and not fish and rice to eat. So I was able to actually order my food and know exactly what would come AND I was able to eat proper sausages! I actually felt like I was in belfast or someplace, not because of the decor or anything, but simply the lack of Japanese, everything was written in English and I could understand what people were saying around me with ease!
So all in all a good time.
I have put up 3 new pics, one of Osaka castle, one of Yoshi in the Blarney Stone and one of a machine at the “drink bar”* in the hotel’s adjoining restaurant.
*A “drink bar” is simply an all you can drink thing, like at pizza hut only you get it yourself, kind of like at Subway only much, much better. This picture gives an example of how it is better, this machine takes some of the beans from the top, grinds them, brews some fresh espresso, steams some milk and makes you one of various kinds of coffee, all at the touch of a button, no barista required!
