My alarm was set for 5:30a.m because I wanted to catch the setting up of the morning market. When I woke up, I realised this idea was just madness from the wave of Takayama excitement I had yesterday and in fact I just needed to see the market and not it’s setting up. So I snoozed my

Now I was settled into my Nagoya hotel it was time to have two day trips to the ancient old capital Kyoto, which had been voted the best city in the world this year. It has a stupid amount of UNESCO World Heritage sites and I had given myself quite a lot to cover in a short space of t