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8 things 4 2008 + 1 more 4 good luck
Eight things to help you through the coming year, a little bit of assistance.
Dish Brush + Pine Tea + Rawhide Mallet + Cheese Grater + Sesame Grinder + Knife Sharpener + Metal Stencils + New York Guidebook + Money Notebook
DENMARK + BELGIUM + USA [...]

Out of the many temples in Kyoto these were my favorites, we visited them in the Fall, (caught the peak Fall leaf period by sheer luck) keep in mind the Spring can be a totally different experience, if anyone has other temples they like please put them in the comments here. We’d really love to [...]

Now we have friends going to Japan, it is really a travel time of year!
This is where we stayed in Kyoto and we really loved it, not so much for the room, although it was in an original wooden house, a rare thing, not so much for the shared bathroom, although it was prefectly clean, [...]