Biking
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Biking Nakatsugawa to Ina
[sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-21 195530.gpx”] Strava is here Pics here Hotel: Ebisu Hotel, Ina Really tough day following the Magomejuku Post Trail for most of the day then through the major tunnels more than one mile long each. Did usual trick of backtracking after stopping 🙁 but only a mile or two today.
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Cycling Inuyama big loop then to Nakatsugawa
[sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-20 190635.gpx”] Strava is here Today.s pics with lots of flashbacks to yesterday 🙁 Hotel tonight is Plaza Hotel Dispiriting day with massive short-term memory failure meaning after breakfast I followed the route I used yesterday to get here 🙁
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Cycling Japan Hikone to Inuyama
Wednesday 19th April 2017 First apologies to those who are expecting the old full-length posts of old that take an hour or more to do. [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-19 164446.gpx”] Todays Strava Today’s Pics Today’s weather: very blustery Ride highlights: having coffee with a group of oldies in the delightful village of Kashibara Accommodation: Inuyama Guesthouse Jesse…
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Cycling Japan – Kyoto to Hikone
Tues 18 April 2017 [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-18 171102.gpx”] Today’s Strava Todays Dropbox pics High headwind 16 degrees no rain Cycled with Jesse from Penang, Malayasia Hotel APA Hikoneminami
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Three days biking from Hof to Higashihiroshima upto lifeday 25,460
Tuesday 11th April I apologise to my regular readers for the brief hiatus due mainly to me feeling distinctly unwell sneezing, producing voluminous mucus & feeling tired, I was going to have a rest day in Hiroshima today but I fell out with the hotel I booked (they wouldn’t store the bike) and the hotel I did…
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Cycling Chofu to Hofu on lifeday 25,457
Saturday 8th April 2017 Yet another miserable weather day with dense mist and very frequent showers. I’m beginning to think that this is typical Japan weather with it sandwiched between warm seas and high mountains, it’s easy to see why the Japanese love Scotland & golf so much with the mist and rain. After my…
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Cycling Kitakyushu to Chofu on lifeday 25,456
Friday 7th April 2017 First, today’s weather report: after yesterday’s atrocious rain 🙁 today started threatening rain with low cloud on the hills and drizzly but this soon cleared up to just overcast and humid through the day, the sun failed to make an appearance although I see Tim & Viv finished the 4 Rivers…
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Cycling Fukuoka to near Kitakyushu on lifeday 25,455
Thursday 6th April Blimey, what a day to start biking to Tokyo! Next 5 days has rain forecast every day! I started under overcast skies along the sea front squashed between huge warehousing operations and an elevated motorway! It soon opened out to retail parks. I’m following the so-called coastal route I downloaded of the internet.…
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First day in Japan – Fukuoka
The crossing from Busan was very smooth and I slept all the way. The immigration officer looked askance at me and wanted to see my flight home details and how was I going to get to Tokyo? Good question I thought! I tried to get some Yen in the terminal with my plastic but no…
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Biking from Namjiri to Busan & ferry terminal on lifeday 25,454
Tuesday 4th April 2017 My final day on the 4 rivers and what an amazing finish it was! I started off at 8am which was a bit early for the Korean bakeries 🙁 so I made do with a few rolls and other bread bits then proceeded to do an 8km loop onto the…