Holiday snapshots

Sharing a few random pictures from Kyoto…

This, from an old imperial palace, sadly too full of other tourists to be put to the test:

A trip to a renowned Zen temple; Haron wouldn’t let me buy souvenirs from the shop (wooden, thick, about three feet long, perfect – I’d thought – for helping a girl to meditate):

Shopping in the centre of town. Not spanking-related, just deeply wrong…

Our hotel room is helpfully decorated with a rather nice vase of bamboo canes:

Inevitably, these were put to use on Monday for Haron’s birthday spanking. Here’s the aftermath:

(No, don’t ask about the ‘lipstick’. Let’s just say that the Japanese are creative designers and Haron was a very happy birthday girl).

PS we may, just may, be getting a little culturally-overdosed. Take last night’s conversation after a few drinks in the exec lounge (Haron having decided to try sake for the first time), when I asked, “Shall we go to the hotel restaurant and eat foreign food surrounded by foreign people, or have a nice club sandwich from room service here in our room in our nice fluffy bathrobes?”