Up this morning and time to leave the palace in Hiroshima. We went off to have breakfast, packed up and got a taxi to the train station. I have to say that Rose is a whizz kid when it comes to finding her way on and off trains. I just meekly follow along behind. It is so good to have her. We manoeuvred our way on and off the trains and and got to Kyoto station. Then we did the usual thing and got our ongoing ticket, this time to Tokyo, found the tourist office and got information about transport systems, city maps etc. The Airbnb had given us the instructions and again with Rose’s help we found our way to the apartment. The only glitch there was that it was one of the rare occasions when we had to climb mountainous stairs and Rose had to lug 2 cases up them. We eyeballed all the restaurants along the way and saw a creperie that we both wanted to test out. So we dropped our bags and out we went. Then it all went to shit for me. My eyes saw bigger than my stomach and we ordered a savoury crepe plus a sweet one to share. I started to eat my savoury one and started to feel completely sick, sweaty ready to vomit. I asked to hold the sweet crepe but it was already on the way. I was a bit of a mess by now…pale, pains in the tummy, naseous etc. I staggered up and got to the loo where I had terrible diarrhoea. Rose was plotting the path to the hospital. However I got up (some poor, polite, Japanese girl went to the loo after me….shocking experience for her too. ) Anyway, sorry if this is too much detail but we doggy bagged the sweet crepe and I headed for home hastily. I hopped into bed and that is where I stayed for the afternoon. I’m up now and still feel a bit shaky on it. No more food for me today. Hopefully I’ll have recovered by tomorrow.
I’m up briefly now, the apartment is tiny as per usual in Japan and I’ll be back in bed soon. In the meantime Rose has planned our schedule for the next 4 days. Lots to see and do here!!!