I woke up first and opened the curtain around my bed to see if Sarah was awake, I heard no movement, I tried a new tactic 'Oi egg' in my loudest whisper (Sarah looks like an egg when she sleeps, it's very cute), her curtain opened and her little pink hand shot out, we exchanged pleasantries and I got up. I had a shower and got changed, Sarah did not (she did have a shower last night, she isn't just not washing) then two Japanese lads came over with gifts of Japanese Chocolate, I accepted and we go chatting. There English was good if not a little broken, they asked where we were from and where we were going today, 'Nara' I said, 'ohhh Nara has a lot of... ahhh... Bambi's' pointing his fingers out of his head to represent antlers, 'oh, deers you mean?' 'yes deer' glad we cleared that one up. We then asked them how to count 'ichy - one, knee - two' etc etc and their names, literally as they said their names we forgot them so we called them Ichy and Knee (one and two). We thanked them for the advice and went to the train station (via 'family mart' to get lunch as the day before we were looking for lunch for about an hour) Neju we then got the local train to Inari we got off (so did every b***** else), and followed the crowds up some steps and at the top was yet another bright orange gateway, we headed through it, we walked passed the praying, washing hands drinking bit and up for the main event. This sight was featured in the film Memoirs of a Geisha a scene where she is running through many many archways. We headed up and sure enough it was a beautiful sight and with about every foot there was an orange archway covered in Kanje (Japanese writing). This went on and on for quite some time until we headed up to some steps, these really did go on and on however with regular clearings on the way up we could see how far up we had climbed. I was getting hotter and my calf's were burning but I thought I would have to keep going as there were elderly Japanese people with walking sticks up there, honestly we don't now how they did it. It really did climb high into the sky but it truly was worth it as the scenery was lovely. When we got to the bottom about an hour and fifteen minutes later we headed down a road lined with street stalls everyone of them selling some form of Japanese food ranging from meat on sticks to cakes, the smells were mouth watering and we had a poxy 'family mart' sarnie. We were understandably upset so we went to our next stop a town called Uji this was a nice place but we didn't stay for long, it was the home of green tea, we walked up a road selling green tea everything! Then up to a nice spot near the river to eat our manky sandwiches, there we were attacked (not literally) by a flock of pigeons, we finished lunch kicked pigeons and then headed back to the station. Then our last visit was Nara where the bambi's were, we got there walked toward the park when in the middle of a stoney path there was a bambi everyone was stroking it and having a photo with it. I then chatted to the most boring Japanese bloke I had ever met. He told me Japanese girls talk from the neck saying 'you know what I mean?' of course I don't you crackpot tit, he then gave me a little booklet I said I would read it (I would not) he then asked me for money so I gave him the little booklet back and walked off with my money tucked away safely. We saw thousands of deer they were just amongst the visitors, we saw a little Jap (about four years old) winding a deer up, it tried to get him kicking it's legs up. The parents did nothing, I was ready to open a tin of whoop ass on the deer, I was thinking maybe a choke hold but then the kid went back for more and the deer chased him and in hindsight was being very patient with the lad, I had changed alliance and now was on the deers side, we went up to the temple and Sarah saw a sign for 'fortunes available in English' well, for someone who the day before slated the Japanese for paying two hundred yen for picking a random piece of paper out of a box, her face lit up. We got one and it said she would have moderate fortune (a little harsh as she has me as a fiancee I thought), she read it then as the locals do (and they are mad for it) tied it to a wire rack near the temple. We headed back and on the way back to the hostel we stopped at 'family-mart' (we love it!) I got pot something (an unidentifiable pot-noodle) we arrived back and had a nice cup of tea and then got chatting again to one and two (the lads) this was about eight o'clock. I taught them about gravy, pie's , the wonderful feeling of a local pub and the tradition of a Sunday dinner. Needless to say they were well impressed. We chatted until about midnight and we went to bed.