Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Places to go in Kyoto Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:18:00 +0900 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <409073E8.80706@hotmail.com> References: <4aa73933.0404202306.4534a9ea@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083208846 15325809 I 202.215.53.66 ([139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:13599 Bryce wrote: > "D&M Johnston" wrote in message > news:VLIjc.1762$TT.1036@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >>"Bryce" wrote in message >>news:hOyjc.203$YR.51710@news.uswest.net... >> >>>There are many "Temple Tour From Hell" packages available. >>> >>>Yeah...I think I had actually discovered my own "Temple Tour From Hell" >> >>package >>" oh my aching legs!!" >> >> >> >>> wrote in message >>>news:4aa73933.0404202306.4534a9ea@posting.google.com... >>> >>>>I've got a chance to go on holiday to Kyoto in May - should I go? >>>>What's the nightlife like? What are the must-sees? I'm kind of looking >>>>for chilled out days and going out in the evenings. > > "Oh my god! this is the fifth time I've been in this same freakin' temple in > 10 years! No one thinks I've ever seen it before!" It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. And if you have a guide, start asking bloody detailed questions - you might as well. Last weekend I went through Nigatsudo in Nara (city) for (I think at least) the 28th time, and after a lovely lunch (where would we be without beer?) waded through the stream to the magaibutsu near Muroji for about the 30th-something. Every single time, I notice shitloads of new stuff that had escaped my attention before. Even for what with the magaibutsu is basically just an outline carved into a cliff. > It's like taking people to the Boeing plant in Seattle for our sister city > exchanges. Hell, if they can't come up with anything new, why the hell > should we, right? But is there anything else to see? I spent two nights in Seattle (Redmond to be more exact) on a business trip. Had a day off waiting for my flight back to Nagoya - what the hell was there otherwise to see? -- "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit"