Before I start this let me just tell you that we were idiots. Tonight, we missed our plane home. No real reason. Went on memory, Jetstar had changed the flight details on us three times and neither of us were bright enough to double check the details today. So we missed check-in by 10 minutes. Really pissed because I was all geared up to come home. Now we have had to book into a hotel, although they were nice enough to upgrade us to a suite, wash clothes and now we need to find something to do for 6 hours tomorrow between hotel kick-out time and us getting on the plane. Don't worry we will be at the airport 3 hours before tomorrow's flight. Alan would have added his comments in red but he really isn't in the mood.
We got up reasonably early this morning and prepared to be out of the hotel by 11am. We checked out, stored our bags at the hotel and made our way to the train station to catch the express train to Nara, about 45 minutes. As we got off the train, we ran into the American couple we had met at the Italian restaurant two days before, Sam & Becky. So the four of us headed off to explore Nara. It made a nice change having someone else to talk to. We walked around the Kofukuji Temple and the three and five storey pagodas and came across some deer. There are 1200 tame deer in the area. They get pretty hungry and will run to anyone who seems to have food.
We then walked to the Todaiji Temple. It is the largest wooden building in the world. It houses a giant Buddha which is made of 440kg gold and 499mg of copper. His total height is 30 metres with a sitting height of 14.98 metres and weighs 500 metric tonnes.
By this stage we had to think about getting back to our hotel so we could make our plane (ha right) so we bid farewell to Sam & Becky and returned to the train station. In all we walked over 7 kilometres today.
We had everything timed perfectly, or so we thought. We had a lovely Japanese dinner before returning to our hotel to get our bags and make our way to the station. It wasn't until we got to the airport did we realise what idiots we were. Thankfully our train tickets are still valid for a few more days so they will get another work out from us tomorrow, if we can find something around here do to. The hotel we're in tonight appears to be in a very dodgy area of town so I don't think we'll be going out for a midnight stroll.
Tomorrow night we will be at the airport well and truly in time for our flight.
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