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More Kyoto
Jul. 30th, 2004 09:03 amFriday – 9:03 am
I’m sitting in my hotel room, waiting to head off for another day of palaces and shrines. I’m watching Wolf Blitzer and Judy Woodruff talk about Kerry, who is getting ready to give his acceptance speech. I am always amazed at how pervasive America is. I don’t necessarily think that is a bad thing, but it is remarkable. It reminds me of the time Joe and I were driving through the state of Minas Gerais on our way to Belo Horizonte in Brazil. We were in the countryside, nothing around us but tropical savannah and suddenly Gun-n-Roses’ Paradise City comes on the radio. We were thousands of miles from the US, a few hundred miles from Rio, but there is Guns-n-Roses.
I saw CNN this morning and the typhoon is going to miss us. It was just touching Tokyo while we were up there but once we got to Kyoto, it was sunny. Now, the typhoon has changed direction and is headed for Kyoto, but when it hits, we will be back in Tokyo. I know this is a good thing, but the typhoon would have been pretty cool.
Last night I watched about 15 minutes of Real Madrid play some Japanese team. That was fun – I think it was just a sort of pre-season match.
We just had a huge breakfast. They really do French pastries well over here. I had some wonderful granola, yogurt, fresh fruit, croissants, two mini-scones, apple juice, orange juice, and teal.
Today we are going to see the palace of the emperor when Kyoto was the capital of Japan. Then, we are going to see a building where parts of The Last Samurai were filmed. Of course, I know that was a movie and not history, but it definitely helps give some color to these beautiful old buildings. The buildings themselves are fascinating, but the movie helps fill in some of the blanks as far was what the people in the buildings might have been like.
I’m sitting in my hotel room, waiting to head off for another day of palaces and shrines. I’m watching Wolf Blitzer and Judy Woodruff talk about Kerry, who is getting ready to give his acceptance speech. I am always amazed at how pervasive America is. I don’t necessarily think that is a bad thing, but it is remarkable. It reminds me of the time Joe and I were driving through the state of Minas Gerais on our way to Belo Horizonte in Brazil. We were in the countryside, nothing around us but tropical savannah and suddenly Gun-n-Roses’ Paradise City comes on the radio. We were thousands of miles from the US, a few hundred miles from Rio, but there is Guns-n-Roses.
I saw CNN this morning and the typhoon is going to miss us. It was just touching Tokyo while we were up there but once we got to Kyoto, it was sunny. Now, the typhoon has changed direction and is headed for Kyoto, but when it hits, we will be back in Tokyo. I know this is a good thing, but the typhoon would have been pretty cool.
Last night I watched about 15 minutes of Real Madrid play some Japanese team. That was fun – I think it was just a sort of pre-season match.
We just had a huge breakfast. They really do French pastries well over here. I had some wonderful granola, yogurt, fresh fruit, croissants, two mini-scones, apple juice, orange juice, and teal.
Today we are going to see the palace of the emperor when Kyoto was the capital of Japan. Then, we are going to see a building where parts of The Last Samurai were filmed. Of course, I know that was a movie and not history, but it definitely helps give some color to these beautiful old buildings. The buildings themselves are fascinating, but the movie helps fill in some of the blanks as far was what the people in the buildings might have been like.
