The Golden Week doesn’t always live up to the promise of rest and relaxation. Multitudes try to make the most of it searching for a way to get away from daily routines. It’s either the city or the countryside. Alas, wherever we turn we find that someone else has already had the same idea of fun, and so, we end up wandering about places and queueing at restaurants, cinemas, museums, and other attractions.
This year we decided to veer off the usual hot spots and went to find a patch in the city that would offer a semblance of relaxing countryside. We got lucky. We found just the place in Jindai Botanical Gardens surrounded by plenty of blooming roses to look at, smell, study and admire. In the end, we found the peace and quiet we'd been looking for and even got to enjoy a picnic of rose-flavoured cake and ice cream! Yum!
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