January 26th - Miya Jima and Kyoto

Today we woke up (sort of) at Hana Hostel and had some breakfast of a bread we bought last night. We caught a local JR train down to Miya Jima station, where we took a ferry over to the island of Miya Jima. There is a shrine there which is one of the Three Views of Japan, which includes a giant red tori (gate) about 20 metres off the coast. At low tide you can walk closer.
Miya Jima is a hilly island which is covered in boring stupid deer. They must be really used to people because they totally ignored us even when I sat next to one. He deliberately looked away from the camera. Another one was eating a blue tarpaulin. I tried to stop him, but he didn't grasp the concept.
We walked around for a while and took some photos around the place. My thumbnail came off and bled! We didn't feel like going up the mountains so we went and had lunch - Gyu-don, which is just beef and onion delicious on rice. We went to a souvenier shop to look at phone danglys and the weird lady shopkeeper kept asking us to buy the island's speciality, maple-leaf shaped little filled cakes. We agreed to buy one, and she said "Maybe two?" "No, just one thanks" "Yes, maybe two." "We will only take one." After that we took the ferry back again.
I felt really sick for a while after that for some reason. It was weird and horrible and I won't go into details. We took the shinkansen from Hiroshima to Shin-Osaka station, where we had to change trains to get to Kyoto, which was only 15 minutes down the track. Charles felt really sick on that train, which was also really horrible. We both had a rum tum (tiddle-iddle-um-tum). We both felt much better when we arrived at Kyoto and knew where to go.
After a rest, we wanted to go and eat something at our favourite mystery restaurant from last time (we no longer felt sick). It was still there with the same menu. I had fried fish and misc. and Charles had katsu-don and misc. It was amazingly rad.
We went to a 100 yen shop and to a CD shop, and a 7-11 where we bought some desserts. One was a milky substance which I thought might be junket but turned out to be disgusting! It tasted like a bad memory, and Charles thought it tasted like codliver oil, except sweet and not so strong. The other dessert was delicious mandarin pieces in jelly.
We're really into Flight Of The Conchords and watched it on the train. Now we're going to watch some more!