seeing snow falling for the first time, mums behaviour regressed to that of a four year old girl. it was mildly embarrassing to see her jump up and down in front of nagoya station, waving her arms towards the sky. it also makes ones heart fill up with warm and fuzzy feelings, doesn't it?
highlights of the last few days have been visiting the castle at inuyama (unlike most castles in japan, this was an original, rather than a concrete replica); seeing a crowd of japanese girls dressed up in punk gear lining up to see a pop band; walking around hida-no-sato, which consisted of a dozen or so farmhouses, each of them centuries old, transported from all over the countryside and reconstructed to form a village in takayama; the train ride from takayama to toyama, the tracks crossing over jade-green rivers and tunnelling under tree-topped mountains heavy with snow; and the town of kanazawa - galleries filled with beautiful pottery and calligraphy, the gorgeous kenroku garden, the wonderfully preserved streets of the geisha and samurai districts. too bad we only planned to stay one night there!
its been good and bad travelling with mum. shes happy to go along with pretty much whatever i suggest (we do have pretty similar tastes), and we've been doing a lot of catching up; at the same time she is even worse than me at reading maps, so we often spend ages stuck in the middle of the sidewalk, with traffic forced to divert around us, while we argued about where we were and which way we're supposed to be going. she also has a tendency to walk in front of oncoming traffic, which is rather unsettling.
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