Kanazawa

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Kanazawa is quite a nice little city. It has very twee gardens, old samourai houses, some nice shopping streets and a big castle that, like most ancient Japanese structures, has been knocked down and entirely rebuilt ( new is better - no, really it is - how many English castles have lifts ). Anyway, we did our usual wandering about, cooked our traditional eggy vegetable pancake dinner at an Okonomiyaki restaurant, were the only customers at a local bar and jumped up and down a lot to keep warm.

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