Saturday 26 March 2011

Gujo

Hello. Today we have been to Gujo a town in the mountains.I know all the while you lot have been asleep. It is about a 45 minute drive and is very beautiful. The air is clear and crisp and the town centres around the cleanest, clearest river you've ever seen. There are little shops and restaurants and parks and many bridges and waterways. We walked past the Temple and up to the Castle. It's sunny and clear today but still cold and in Gujo we got flurries of snow. 
We stopped and ate in a small restaurant. The menu was in japanese with no pictures so we ordered coffee to buy us time. It was delicious and served with biscuits. Then the owner presented us with a hard boiled egg each so I decided she'd help us. I said in Japanese that I couldn't read the menu but would like to eat what one of the other customers was eating (a bowl of noodle soup). This was provided for us and had some sort of delicious smokey dried fish and spring onions in it. She pointed to it on the menu and taught me that it is called Urden. 
Success all round really. 
Here are the all important photos.





1 comment:

  1. Beautiful -- make sure you take some hard copies for the future.

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