Kyoto Tower

If you are coming by Shinkansen (High Speed Train) to visit me, this is where you will arrive in Kyoto. Kyoto Station is a several storied building with a rooftop garden and has an awesome view over Kyoto. Also, next door is Kyoto Tower (and Hotel). A must-see spot for tourists. I still haven't been to the top of Kyoto Tower so I'll wait until my first visitor comes here =D

Looking from the rooftop garden down into the station. 12 floors high I believe, at least...

Best Ramen I've had so far

I'm not going to bother to write a lot about this. It just IS the best ramen ever!!! It is soooooo tasty and cheap (600 yen) and the staff now recognise me haha. I took the "Kitakyushu boys on tour" to this place and they loved it. If you come to Kyoto I'll take you there and you can see how good it is for yourself.

Enjoy...

London crazYness

Had 20 hours to waste in London before my flight to Dubai. I was booked into a hotel out by the airport (blog about that to come) so I took the underground to London to do some sightseeing since I actually haven't done that at all except a 2am tour of Buckingham Palace ^_^

Heathrow (metro) Knightsbridge (metro) Green Park (walk) Piccadilly Circus (metro) Waterloo (walk) Westminister (metro) Heathrow (metro) Hammersmith (metro) Piccadilly Circus (metro) Heathrow.

The reason for going back to Heathrow is related to the hotel that I booked and that I had to check in at 2pm or lose my room :@ arrrrrg

The London Eye
A great attraction but not worth the cost to go up on it. Also it has to usually be booked in advance and it takes a while for it to go around. If you have the time and want to see London from a good height I suppose it is worth your time. Lots of tourists and the area around it is a tourist trap. Beware




Death Trap
I really wanted to go into this place but carrying a heavy laptop bag around wasn't the best idea if I wanted to be chased around a labyrinth by people dressed up. If I have the chance to be in London with a few mates this is something that would be fun to do. The screams coming from the building were horrific! Many tourists stopped to take pictures but none dared to enter -_-


Big Ben
With accordance to the horror theme from above I was lucky I suppose you could call it to be close enough to Big Ben just as it was 12:00. 12PM might not be something scary really, but imagine it was 12AM instead lol. Yes, it was windy on the bridge and cold - hence my stupid expression.





Getting Ripped Off
Woman: Here, have a flower sir! (forces flower into my hand)
Me: Oh, umm right. Thank you.
Woman: It's children's day today. GIVE me money!!!
Me: I'm sorry, I don't have an British currency on me (this was true, I had been paying with my credit card). I've only got Swedish Kroner which is pretty useless to you.
Woman: Give it to me anyway.
Me: OK, (opens wallet and gives her 20 SEK. Worth about £2 but you can't exchange that because the exchange costs will eat it all up)

Then I walked away. Arrg, dislike London. She wasn't taking "no" for an answer.


Hilarious Protesters
These dudes and dudettes were protesting against all the inhuman justice going on in the world today. Disregarding their belief of the far left and anarchy (by the sounds of it) and the propaganda that they were spewing out they were quite funny and I want to give them credit for standing there saying the things that they did.

"More prostitutes for MPs. Give them fellatio after they wake up and the world will be a better place. A sexually satisfied man is a happy and quiet man"
(Probably one that would sleep all day too and then not cause any trouble in parliament! lol)

"Oh no, there is nothing homoerotic about the army at all! What's less gay than thousands of buff men living together in the desert with no females as far as the eye can see, hunting other equally buff men and the occasional camel for months at a time."*

Overall the slogans they had were funny but crude. That about sums their protest up. I'm not voicing my own opinion on this particular sarcasm about the army so don't start sending hate mails to me. Thanks.