The Friends of the Simon's Town Library will host a talk by Fish Hoek residents Paul and Karen Kilfoil, who will share highlights from their recent trip to Japan.

The talk will take place on Saturday November 30, at 9.30am, in the Simon's Town library hall, located next to the library. Entry is R50 a person.

The Kilfoils, avid travellers, spent four weeks in Japan from Wednesday May 8 to Friday June 7.

The talk will explore their experiences, from travelling across seven time zones to the other side of the world on three flights and touchdown at Tokyo's Narita International Airport to tasting a variety of foods including some “unidentifiable pickled stuff for breakfast”.

The talk will feature their time in Tokushima, the biggest city and capital of the island of Shikoku, and feature highlights of their seven-day Shikoku Henro walk in which they visited 19 of the 88 temples on the route.

They also visited Hiroshima, a city devastated by the first atomic bomb used in wartime; Kyoto, the former Japanese capital and heart of modern-day Geisha culture; Hakone National Park for a view of the cloud-shrouded Mount Fuji; and Tokyo, the world’s largest city with a population of more than 37 million people.

Friends of the Simon’s Town Library secretary Steph Mellor said all proceeds of the talk would be used for community outreach projects such as the library’s children’s reading hour, general improvement of the library and to enhance the library’s stock.

Beverages and snacks will be served.

RSVP to events@simonstown.com

Karen Kilfoil enjoying dinner in a traditional Japanese yakuta.

Paul Kilfoil in the village of Moto-Hakone, on the shore of Lake Ashi with Mount Fuji in the background.

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Fish Hoek couple to talk about Japan adventure