Kyoto...a 'tiny' city (Friday 02.07.10)

Arriving and having a slight sleep in we set out in the morning to do some shopping in Kyoto city before the workshops and evening cabaret performance. Kyoto is the most traditional city in Japan and everything is tiny... tiny houses, tiny doors, tiny streets, tiny cars and anyone taller than Mio felt like somewhat of a giant. The city was so clean and very nice. We ate, we shopped, we walked the lovely streets trying on hats and looking at the fantastic plastic food displays. Just like window shopping for clothing, the food here is on display to entice and intrigue you and before you know it you're eating a double choc banana carmel cream crepe!




In the afternoon we went to Spanish Harlem Latin Club: two workshops and then the first performance of Latin Cabaret. The beautiful salsa club venue was the ideal setting for Latin Cabaret with the audience sitting in booths and chandelier lighting hanging above us. The performance was wonderful and everyone enjoyed it, the audience was smiling the entire time, adding comments like "oh, so sexy" and "beautiful, amazing dancers". After the show we all enjoyed social dancing and finished the evening at 2.30am with Izakaya (ee-za-ka-ya): where we tried all sorts of food:
Raw chicken: Annette, Simone, Lenny & Ronan ("it tastes just like chicken!")
Raw liver: Ronan, Chris & Shankkar ("it doesn't taste anything like chicken!")
Everyone agreed the food was amazing and a great way to end the first show of the tour... we headed back to the hotel to enjoy a total of 4 hours sleep before waking up and traveling to Fukui very early the next morning.