Picature highlights

Kate edited and uploaded a bunch of today's pictures to DeviantArt, but she's gone to bed, so I'm posting some of them here.

Here's a pretty good shot of one of the gates in Chinatown. Note the very authentically Chinese storefront sign to the right.



Same gate, different angle, looking down the street. So many pretty lights! Yokohama Chinatown does the pretty touristy thing better than the one back in Vancouver.



The streets of Chinatown are lined with restaurants. Outside of one of them was this sight:



How they can get this cat to sleep peacefully outside in the cold, apparently on a regular basis, is beyond me. It sure is cute, but at first we thought it was dead--maybe a sort of advertisement for dishes featuring cat meat.

Here's the sign outside of Athens "TaBepva" (which is apparently pronounced like "Taverna").



Many kind of Greek foods indeed! I'm not entirely sure if this place is run by an actual Greek. The only people working there when we went were two Japanese girls--no Greek chef in evidence. Still, Kate thinks our food was prepared ahead of time by a Greek, and they did have an impressive array of ouzo--at least 6 different kinds. We'll hopefully find out more the next time we go. If all goes well, the owner will be there, he'll be Greek, we'll let him know Kate's last name, and then he'll give us free retsina.