As I had written last week, the first part of my bicycle adventure in Kyoto had been fun and exhilarating. We were tired and took a chance to take a big rest when the story left of.

It was almost 4PM that we decided we need to go. Little did we know, our next decision turned our honeymoon upside down. I think I was not in the right mind. I failed myself as the organizer of this trip. Bad call on myself, and James spoiled me too much to turned down my crazy idea. I told him I want to go to Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavilion, really bad. I told him it would had been closed when we get there, so we should go somewhere else. However, foolish me had a brilliant idea, thinking that we would be able to take pictures of the pavilion from outside of the gate. He said, let’s do it. So, off we went.

We were so confident of our scheme, that we even took time to stop by Nijo castle. On our map, Nijo castle is halfway to Kinkakuji from where we started. It was closing, and we should had stopped here. I knew we should had. I didn’t say anything though. We asked one of the korean tourist girls to snap a picture of us before we pushed on.