When you are 10,000 miles from home in a foreign country, the language of which you cannot speak, on the last day of your best-ever-holiday, the last thing you want to do is lose your phone. Readers will already have jumped to the correct conclusion...that is exactly what Mr Blog did.
Walkng the "Philosophers Walk" in Kyoto along the side of a canal among cherry trees and cooled by gentle breezes falling from the mountaints has been a lifelong dream for Mr Blog. So it was on the way there that he ruined the moment by leaving his Iphone 6S in a taxi. He could have taken the bus but as he discovered with Mrs Blog earlier that morning, getting one that goes where you think it's going is a bit of a challenge. (Besides which Mr Blog has form for losing things on buses).
Kyoto has a magic about it and that is amplified along the Philosopher's Walk. Almost chilled Mr (and Mrs) Blog enjoyed the experience and went on to a market in the city centre. One of the streets in the market is almost half a mile long. All the walking gives you time to think. The Blogs decided to call Eric-the-guide-Blog who was on a well-earned day off.
Not having Eric's number was a slight handicap. But after several international calls and "Yes, I am an idiot" conversations we tracked it down.
The Japanese cannot do enough to make visitors feel welcome so it was no surprise that Eric leapt into action. He used his own Iphone to track down Mr Blog's. It turned out to be half a mile away! Eric-the -hero-Blog jumped in his car and began a Bondesque car chase after the taxi. Forty minutes later he called (clearly on Mrs Blog's phone because she isn't an idiot!) to say he had retrieved it after flashing his lights at the taxi for several blocks.
Phew!
This the last post on the Big Adventure although a list of things that didnt make blog material will follow.
Mr and Mrs Blog are off to Avignon so you never know...maybe a post of two on a "Slightly smaller adventure" will follow?
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