No alarms.\u00a0 Nothing to wake up for.\u00a0 What bliss!!!\u00a0 Just lots of traffic as this is the official start to golden week.\u00a0 I woke up around 8.00 and Kaoru was already up and at it.\u00a0 I was feeling sore in areas I hadn’t felt sore for a long time, after our travelling.\u00a0 We had masuzushi sushi for breakfast, which we had bought back in Toyama.\u00a0 Mazuzushi is done in the “Oshizushi”, or “pressed” style.\u00a0 The packing was in true japanese style – just beautiful.\u00a0 It was wrapped in bamboo leaves, then served in a thin wooden (almost balsa wood) dish, with cross pieces to hold it all together tightly.<\/p>\n
After breakfast I spent some time catching up on work things.\u00a0 A skype to Brett to deal with a problem back home – the usual stuff.\u00a0 A bit more work, and then Kaoru and I went out to lunch.\u00a0 It was quite warm outside so I wasn’t very hungry.\u00a0 I was thinking cold noodles would be nice, but we couldn’t find anywhere that had them.\u00a0 Apparently it was too early in the season for it to be the “norm” in Japan.\u00a0 So we ended up at a western style shop and had a roll and a macha latte.\u00a0 That should keep us going.<\/p>\n
We then started to walk back to the house, chatting away, when somebody came up to us and asked Kaoru if she spoke English (obviously knowing she did as he could hear us talking).\u00a0 He was Russian and just arrived.\u00a0 He had dropped his bags off at his hotel but couldn’t check in yet, and had no money.\u00a0 So we took him to a Western Union Credit Union to change money – good deed for the day done!<\/p>\n
Back at home we packed our bags for the afternoon, and then went out to spoil ourselves after our week away – with a massage!\u00a0 It was an hour of just relaxing and having all the sore muscles worked on – what more could you ask for?<\/p>\n
We walked back to the house, grabbed our bags, had a quick beer, and then we were away again.\u00a0 We walked to the train station, and on the way could see some Westerners talking to a Japanese person, who looked very confused.\u00a0 Kaoru said to me “we are going to have to help these people now” – thinking maybe they were friends of the guy we helped earlier.\u00a0 They were trying to find the hotel they were staying at, but hadn’t checked in yet.\u00a0 We pointed them in the right direction and then went to the train station ourselves.<\/p>\n
We caught the two trains we did last Saturday after I arrived, and Mio picked us up from the train station.\u00a0 We went back to her house for a drink, and then caught a taxi to dinner.\u00a0 Yoichi and Arisa were already there waiting for us.\u00a0 This was a “deep fried” night – similar to what we had in Kyoto with Mum and Dad, and Aunty Linda and Uncle Owen last April, except it was cooked for us rather than us having to do it.\u00a0 There was a collection of sauces, and every few minutes a new skewer, cooked and ready to go, was put on a plate.\u00a0 We dipped it in a sauce, ate it, and put the empty skewer in a holder.\u00a0 How easy was that????<\/p>\n
After dinner we came back to Mio’s, had a drink and had a relaxing bath before going to bed, ready for tomorrow’s adventure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No alarms.\u00a0 Nothing to wake up for.\u00a0 What bliss!!!\u00a0 Just lots of traffic as this is the official start to golden week.\u00a0 I woke up around 8.00 and Kaoru was already up and at it.\u00a0 I was feeling sore in areas I hadn’t felt sore for a long time, after our travelling.\u00a0 We had masuzushi … Continue reading