To Kyoto
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 24 Oct 2017 22:47
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To Kyoto
 Steps away from the Arrivals Lounge
at Kansai (Osaka) Airport is the fast rail link
station. Flashing our rail tickets, we were off within ten minutes of
collecting our cases. All a wonder to us that the trains are so precise, we see
odd times like :32, :27 etc. and to the dot that is exactly when they leave
after giving passengers about thirty seconds to get their act
together.
  The gal who appeared can only be best
described as a refrigerator on wheels. Our journey -
an hour and twenty minutes through varying scenery with three
stops.
  Out of the station and over the very long
bridge before we saw a big wheel on the land
side.
  Tall
buildings and housing estates – could be
anywhere in Europe.
  Supersize blocks
of flats.
 Crossing the Yodo
River.
 Kincho
Stadium, capacity 19,904.
 Typical
town – Higashisumiyoshi – love the names here.
 The Uji
River.
  Big balls
and a port on the left.
 A kindergarten
with a Bear on the sign.
 Closer to Kyoto the buildings become
more skyscraper.
 I missed the sign as we whizzed by but
under the blue tarpaulins is where you can buy topsoil......
 A more unusual
shaped house.
 Rice fields
next to a huge Aeon Shopping Mall.
 Allotments,
whatever next.
 A plant
nursery.
  Hal an hour later we were standing in
the magnificent Kyoto Station.
  An eleven minute walk from the
station and we were in our new digs, this time an actual backpackers. Beds
settled on our very firm mattress. The comedy is, we can only open one case at a
time on the bed and the pair of us move around the room like some kind of a
bizarre tango. The bathroom, although it has a fancy toilet, the seat wiggled
and I never did find the heater switch. Dereliction of
duty, First Mate, poor show. Have you ever seen a towel the size of
a face flannel used with such menace, Bear has.
Run Bear run.
But the room isn’t
big enough to get out of a small, single shuffle.
See Pepe’s face turn
puce.
 After exploring the station, finding a
wonderful set meal, we cross the road by the Kyoto
Tower and we bimble back to our digs.
   Passing the tower we see lights in a
building on a crossroads, a sumptuous Japanese
chariot..............just goes to show we never know what’s at the
next.....we couldn’t find out about this amazing means of transport as the
information board was all in spaghetti.
 Not sorry to be tucked up on our
board-like mattress after today’s journey of 1042
miles (that would have taken at least 24 hours by
car or 18 hours by train), door to door on one shuttle bus, one coach, two flights, a train and
the eleven minute walk which took us a total of eight and a half
hours.
ALL IN ALL QUITE A DAY OF
TRAVEL
REMARKABLY
EFFICIENT |