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Air travel mars UK's green strategy.
The UK's Department of Environment counts only emissions that come under the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement to reduce global warming. This treaty excludes air and marine transport emissions because there is no international agreement on how to tax aviation fuel.
Following in the footsteps of Isabella Bird
Contemporary photographs taken along routes once followed by an adventurous Victorian woman explorer have gone on show at the National Library of Scotland. Over a 10-year period, Professor Kiyonori Kanasaka of Kyoto University travelled across continents that were visited in the late 1800s by Isabella Bird, one of the most famous travellers and authors of the 19th century. 'In the Footsteps of Isabella Bird: adventures in twin time travel' features images the professor took on his journeys. Sometimes he captured the same scene which Bird herself photographed, and on display are some of Bird's pictures alongside Kanasaka's modern-day view. To find out more, including opening times, see our exhibition news page. 'In the Footsteps of Isabella Bird' runs until 27 November.
The geisha game
Japan's imperial city of Kyoto is the sumptuous setting for a new film. Adrian Bridge sought out its most elusive - and alluring - inhabitants.
Kyoto: How Many Buddhas Is Too Many?
Answer that question, grasshopper, and you too can make the voyage to Kyoto's Rengeo-in temple, aka Sanjusangendo, aka the Thousand Buddha Temple. There are actually (supposedly) 1,001 statues in the 700-year-old wooden longhouse, and they are actually statues of Kannon, goddess of mercy. But Kannon is really just one of the 33 manifestations of the Buddha, or something like that, so please don't get picky. The Buddha doesn't like picky. You don't want to spend your next life as a tapeworm in a pig's ass, do you? Thousand Buddha Temple, Kyoto [VirtualTourist] Sanjusangendo [japan-travel.com] Previously: Listen to the Mushroom People, Eating Kyoto
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