Month: April 2017
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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…
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Biking the 4 Rivers Trail from Oxpomyeon to Namjiri on lifeday25,452
Monday 3rd April 2017 Well, I was totally wrong about reaching the end of the trail today! It turns out the river twists and turns a lot more than I thought so it’s more like 200 km to Busan 🙂 I set off before 8 as it was such a beautiful morning. I stopped for…
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Glorious biking between Nakdongni and Oxpomyeon on lifeday 25,451
I woke to thick mist over the river but every sign it was going to be a great day. I wasn’t as starving as I thought I would be after my two fried eggs and small bowl of rice for dinner. Well it is a big beef growing area 🙁 It’s really surprising how local…
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Biking Jeomchondong to Nakdongni via Sangju on LifeDay 25,450
Saturday April 1st 2017 50 years anniversary of leaving home and coming to live in Cambridge for 3 years 🙂 It was a stay or should I go start to the day 🙁 the rain started to clear so I thought I should go. I’m finding it hard to know how long to stay in Korea…
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Biking in the hills between Sunabo to Jeomchon on lifeday 25.449
I woke up to the sound of pouring rain 🙂 However, by the time I had eaten my honey toast for breakfast and chatted to the others the rain had cleared up, although the forecast was still pretty dire for the day. This is the 4 Rivers Trail big hill day 🙂 where you cross the…