The Real Traveller

she was so proud she visited japan at last and its big cities in the last one month it was summer and everywhere she goes she boasted about it of course to me too who stayed there two years 'well have you been to all the cities? ' she asked self conceited. i said humbly 'No.' But then i know she would not know how a forlorn sakura tree and its sparse bloom would look like on the road side in busy shinjuku and how terribly humid summer can be in Chiba where restaurants are packed with crowds going to the beach and disneyland and how terribly sweet golden yellow persimmons would cheer up a gloomy drizzling autumn and how long the day would be in cold cold winter when what you want to do is just lie down and stay in bed