Just to set the scene we are in our hostel, sitting in our Japanese style room on our Tatami matting, a guy singing as he plays his guitar, ice forming on our noses, a huff of breath as we talk, Kirstin typing our blog wearing Rob's gloves, the same gloves Kirstin suggested didn't need to be packed; an Aussie accent sweetly rings out from the long wooden hall "it's as cold in ere as it is outside!" with the scene now set, we shall begin.............. Once again the train was our carriage, this time to Kyoto; the museum city of Japan on account of its staggering amount of temples and shrines, but more infamously the home to the Geisha. Temples greet you on every street corner, half way up the street, part way down a street
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