Today for some reason we both woke up feeling tired despite an okay nights sleep... We had our breakfast and headed out to Arashiyama to see the bamboo grooves. We got the subway and headed over on the twenty min journey. When we arrived we headed to grab some orange juice ...thinking the tiredness is probably due to severe lack of fruit and veg and carried on. We headed in to the town across the beautiful Togetsukyo Bridge... Also known as the moon crossing ...

Today I woke up at seven thirty and thought I would quickly get dressed and meet Steven for breakfast... We had a long day ahead and wanted to get an early start. However due to the fact I was sharing a room with a collection of Japanese dolls... This was never going to happen. There was already four of them crammed into the small sink space putting on their fake lashes and make up, they were very friendly and sweet and it made me recall living back at home wi...

Today we woke separately and met in the lounge at about 8.30am... We had both slept well surprisingly and were well rested. We sat for a while catching up with mail, writing the blog and researching what we wanted to do while in Kyoto. We planned our days excursions over a cup of tea or two and a sweet bun offered by the hostel before I finished writing the blog on Hiroshima which was emotionally draining. We then thought we would get some fresh air, the hoste...

Today I woke on my bottom bunk bed to the sound of Stevens iPad alarm making a racket... This seemed to go on for a while and I wondered why he hadn't turned it off considering Ben was still sleeping, he is normally quite considerate. Turned out later that he had woken up with two numb arms and was physically unable to turn it off haha... He hadn't had this problem since we shared a tiny single bed and I used to stretch out in my sleep making him curl up, normal...

After a somewhat unsettled night sleep on the bus we arrived to a sunny morning in Hiroshima at roughly 08:30am. The overnight bus ride was fine except one to many toilet breaks, perhaps there were a few weak bladders on the bus... And it wasn't Laura's for once! Apart from that we no real complaints about the overnight bus and was a very good and cheap method of transport. We heaved on our bags and headed in the general direction of our hostel, or so we thought....