As planned, last weekend I again hit the streets on a bicycle, this time a rental from the Yamaha shop below the cafe in Kyoto. The guy (a fluent English speaker) rented me a mama-chari for just 200 yen, because it was late afternoon when I arrived. It was blue and had a basket. I rode it from Rokujo (6th Street) to Nijo (2nd Street), then to Sanjo ( Read more... )

[12:06] <@meganegaki> I like how when I check Google Maps for directions, it tells me to "take the train."Yesterday I had a lovely day in Kyoto. I packed up my laptop and intended to go SOMEwhere quiet and just write, trying for the shrine gardens near Shichijo. This fell through as they closed at 4, so I opted to walk along Kawaramachi-dori to ( Read more... )

I'd intended to write something poetic today but I went for a quick kip under the kotatsu and woke up three hours later after dreaming about being chased by tigers all over Ami-chan's house while she and her father tried to rescue me. Instead I read most of The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dorstein and did some translation ( Read more... )