For the person in your life that says, "I am a yoga teacher/massage therapist/barista/circus performer/clothing designer/architect/public relations manager/professional traveler" here is a good article on how to make a life of it. I have Boodi and Kai in mind.
I'm off to Kyoto today. The East Asia chapter of the Calorie Restriction Society will have a meeting in Tokyo today. Just kidding; I'm meeting a fellow CR practitioner who has helped me a lot with advice on getting around town. Speaking of CR, I'm not sure how my practice of it is going, since I don't have a scale to weigh myself. But I'm getting a lot of exercise walking everywhere. When I'm not walking I'm taking a train. The precision of the trains is overwhelming here. The descriptions of which train to take and the arrival time is described down to minutes.
I have not stayed out at night. Actually it does not interest me; or more like the distractions unsettle me. I have seen many of the things that I had read about in magazines about the local culture - the girls that wear fake fur on boots and jackets, with fake animal tails dangling from their purses; a woman dressed as a french maid/milk farmer's wife, complete with an ancient costume; the Gothic look; women dressed in kimonos coming out of a formal event; young men and women dressed to the nines in suits and hyper elegant shoes. Fascinating; I want to keep being elegant. And I'm not even mentioning manga costumes, dolls, etc. Then there was the public relations event with a big camera crew doing a promotion shoot at the neighborhood pole dancing studio, "Pinkie Pole", located next to the Indian Pakistani restaurant where I enjoyed curry yesterday.
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Kyoto! Still feels like home, can't wait to move back. Hope you like it Arturo. Center of town itself isn't so special although there are some nice streets, but once you get to the edges, wonderful temples everywhere and all completely different from each other. Walking along the kamo river is nice, it runs through the length of the city, I used to play my sax there every morning.
I know you didn't feel like going out in the evenings much in Tokyo but Kyoto is different. Take a stroll around Gion the old quarter maybe from yasaka shrine to pontocho, Shrines and temples are always nice in the evening, shirakawa canal is nice too with the tea houses lit up. Envious.
Look forward to seeing your pictures
Oh it sounds wonderful! I especially love hearing about the outfits....Japan is on my wishlist almost for that reason alone. Thank you for sharing & yes, please post pictures when you get a chance! :)
Dear Grimmly
I think I will enjoy it when I get to the temples area. Wayfinding is not easy, though, because unlike in Tokyo, the announcements in the metro are not in Japanes followed by English. It's all in Japanese. Yesterday I took 4 submay lines erroneously, going all over the southwest part of the city, when all I wanted was to get to the Tokyo Station. I may go to O'Hara on Thursday to get into the mountains.
Dear Mel, I have felt inclined to snap pictures of people in their strange attire, but it's not like photographing architecture; I would have to ask their permission, so I haven't been doing it. But it has taken me by surprise.
Cheers,
Arturo
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