Since becoming good friends with a couple who lived there for ten years, I've been daydreaming about Japan: stunning gardens, peaceful temples, amazing food and fascinating history. Here's where I'd like to go:
This moss garden at the Saiho-ji Temple. How gorgeous and peaceful does that look?
This bamboo forest in Kyoto. I'd love to walk down those paths with walls of bamboo on either side. I'm sure it's full of people a lot of the time, but in my imagination it would be totally silent.
And I'd love to wander through the Tokyo National Museum and explore its archaeological treasures and huge art collection.
(Of course, the weather would be sunny and gorgeous, too.)
If you could take a trip anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
2 comments:
You know what? I'd come with you... if you can fit me into the suitcase. :-) Japan is highest on my list of places I want to visit, mainly because of the amazing needlework - mostly historical rather than modern, but also other aspects of culture. Australia is probably next on the list - and then I'd like to revisit Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
I'd love to go to Norway, too, Polly. I've been thinking of taking a big trip somewhere after I finish my articling year if I don't have a job starting right away. Maybe Scandinavia!
That Japanese needlework sounds beautiful. I would love to see some of it.
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