Adventures in Japan

Golden

Alternate title: Golden, Pepsi, The Word Is Golden

Kochi seems pretty all right. There seems to be a lot more going on here than in Takamatsu. A lot more young people about being loud and boisterous. Just like in Takamatsu, our hotel is right next to a shopping arcade and, just like Takamatsu, most of the shops in the arcade close at 7 (we got into town at around 6:30). But at the end of this shopping arcade there is a building that contains numerous food and drink stalls. People just go there and eat and drink and hang out. I like it!

That was counter-balanced by the fact that we cannot find a bank. In Takamatstu, there was a branch of Carla's bank just a short walk from our hotel. We spent a bit of time walking around last night, followed by Carla spending and hour or so on the internet looking for a place that will give us money. We may have found one.

We had enough money to get some dinner last night. We grabbed some deep fried soft tacos at the aforementioned building of food. And then we went to a cantina. Where we got authentic cantina fair. No we didn't. Our "original soft tacos" was a plate of fillings (including hard boiled eggs and weiners) and two of some kind of flat bread. They weren't tortillas! The crust of our bacon and asparagus pizza (one of the few not to include mayonnaise as a topping) was much more tortilla like.

Our Caesar salad, which our server made sure to point out to us was a Caesar style salad and not an authentic Caesar salad, had Italian dressing.

I liked that place. It was different.

Also, we can see a castle from our hotel window. But it's just far enough away so that it looks really far away in pictures when it doesn't look nearly so far away to the naked eye.

Wow, for an addendum to Carla's post I sure typed way to much. I do go on sometimes.