Mother Spicy Chicken

I realise that we've got quite a good 'Japan' thread going on here, and I hate to interrupt before we upload all the photos... but sweet momma's kitchen - we just ate some spicy chicken! So spicy that you want unsuspecting friends there to suffer while you smugly watch. So spicy that I was contemplating ripping my tongue out and submerging it in a pot of yogurt. So spicy that if Zenu (the intergalactic space warlord of Scientology fame) and Tom Cruise told me they could take away the pain if I converted... well, I'm sure you get the picture.

Just wanted you to know that we ate some spicy chicken tonight. SPICY chicken.

The Water Temple in Kyoto

Here is the stunning Buddhist Water Temple, whose name we've forgotten (please forgive us Budds). It is set in the mountains enclosing Kyoto. As we discovered, there are some twenty odd temples in the surrounding mountains, so our arm waving, fingers in the shape of mountains and/or temples and slow English repetitions of "mooounttain temple - mooountain temple" left us no where. Well, it left us somewhere, but not at the mountain temple we wanted.

Gion District Photos - Kyoto

Some more photos from the Gion District in Kyoto, Japan. It's preddy.

Japan Sojourn - There's More!

We found a great bar that was small, and the walls were covered with tins of food that you could buy... Fish on sticks... an 'insta-party' and two nights free accom thanks to JB... a whole bunch of kimonos

Japan Sojourn

Japan was awesome. We were there for a week (unexpectedly), we spent two days in Kyoto and the rest waiting for our visa's and exploring Osaka.

Kyoto was great, it was close to 40degrees, and the humidity was, well... I felt it was inhumane – but we pushed through it. We went to a water temple (Buddhist) set into beautiful mountains, walked around the old Gion district (Geisha district). The lanes were old and cobbled, and the architecture was incredible.

Tim thought it was like a Japanese Rome.

Dirty dirty dirty

Quite a while back, we went to a mud festival on the west coast of Korea. Basically, it was a whole bunch of foreigners (and some Korean folk) smearing themselves with mud, baking in the sun, drinking beer, eating sea food, swimming and smothering yourselves with mud again. Needless to say, it was really fun. Entertainment included people climbing into mud “prison”, going down mud slides, mud wrestling and mud tug-of-war.

Tim was particularly shocked, after seeing nothing but skinny Koreans, when confronted with buxom foreigners with no shirts and mud smeared in all the crevices. He didn't go to McDonalds for days.