Today we hiked up and down, round and round and then again.
If someone had told me at the start that this was going to be such a climb I may not have done it but an hour into the journey and having been bypassed by aged Japanese with walking sticks...I was down but not out.
Every step of the journey became painful up flight of granite stairs between vermillion Tori gates ( 1000 of them ) and past shrine after shrine....
But it was worth it even though knees cracked and thighs buckled on the way down. The whole trek took us over 2 hours - then we sat in a small restaurant and had more noodly things and I had some tempura veges..
Baby girl then went insane at one of the bookshops on the way home and bought more books...how ARE we going to get these home?
We are now contemplating whether we have enough energy to go out for dinner or just to fade away gracefully while watching Japanese TV.
Well it was hard to get up...but overall not too bad I guess.....tomorrow we will do more of the same..Maybe Gion ( where the most beautiful street in Japan is supposed to be found ) and then there is a food market to explore in the evening.
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Sticks and Stones may break my bones.....