day 14 - moving around

17/06/07 23:50
parabola blasting on the ipod, air conditioning making the room pleasently cold, a real bed - i already love kyoto. but back to the beginning. i spent most of the morning packing since i went to the trouble of repacking my entire suitcase which turned into one big mess by now. that was worrth the effort and for now everythings very properly arranged. i went with tetsuro to a kaitenzushi place for lunch (you know, where the dishes revolve around you and you pick them off the... thing. fliessband.) after that his wife and me went hiking for a bit. the mountains (or something that passes for such) were actually quite close to the house, with a nice forest that seemed familiar but somehow strange (i guess because they have other plants here?). our goal was a huge suspension bridge across a valley (think indiana jones and the temple of doom with a little more safety and without KALIMAAAAA-). i don`t know, 200, 300 meters long? really great, i hope the pictures will turn out fine. then we drove here to kyoto. we had dinner (as usual a real feast) and i got to know the family: ootsuki-san, his wife, his mother, the son masayuki, two friends of the family. their dinner table has a neat trick: it looks like one of those t5ables where you have to sit crosslegged (or more properly: on your knees), but the floor below it has been lowered so that you can actually sit quite normally. i finished murakami`s "kafka on the shore". 600 pages in 2 days, i really have too much time on my hands. well, we were driving around quite alot.