I caught some horrible cold or other sort of respiratory virus and spent the day in bed yesterday, plus several days preceding that coughing and sneezing in coffeeshops and generally failing to appreciate any of the riches Kyoto has to offer, because I was unable to enjoy or even make it to them. I have to spend today on the train to Takayama, where apparently it will be very cold, because I already made my reservations, and which I am unlikely to appreciate either even if I feel twice as good as I do now, because the last time I was this sick was right at the end of my last trip to Japan. Obviously I have no resistance to Japanese germs.
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