Late start today, Linney has had to many late nights.
Finally got away about 9:00.
Nice dry day still a bit blustery at times.
Nice ride out of town through some rice fields into the next town.
Where we stumbled across a Autumn festival. Not a big event just a group of guys carrying a large mikoshi shrine.
They took great delight in our interest, stopped and banged out a tune. I hade failed to notice that this thing had a 4 boys and a drum inside.
We left them to celibrate and cracked on. Shortly after Linneys back brake was making a funny noise. Pulled over dimantled and put back togethe, all good.
Into the next town we come across a massive Autumn festival. Guys all in their Sumo outfits and ladies in traditional dress.
All doing traditional dances and consuming alcohol. (tomorrows a holiday). We spent some time here talking to the locals and taking photos.
Onward we went out into the countryside proper. What a lovely place. Beaches, coves, fishing villages and lovely roads
Had been a pretty slow day in all, so we cracked on down the main road. Low and behold after about 15 minutes the Poice are on to us.
After the initial, who are you where are you going. They were very nice. Took all our details and asked us to follow them back the way we had come 400 metres.
Then insured we knew where we were going and checked our route, kindly shock our hands and let us go.
Linney says no worries only 6 or 7 to go. Off we set still laughing at our experience with the Poice.
Then we rounded the corner to see the steepest section of road I had seen in a long time. No worries says Linney you work up an appetite.
Over the hill, down into the lovely fishing village, a small homestay is our shelter for the night.
We meet our hosts and expain that we want to shower, eat and watch the rugby(Japan v Scotland). They were fine with the first three but slightly puzzled with the fourth.
After a lovely traditional chicken noodle stir fry, I opened the laptop up to watch the rugby. After their innitial apprehension, Japan winning and many SAKI.
They got right into the spirit of things. Excellent evening, the nicest saki ever and new followers of RUGBY. Cant be bad.

Cornflakes and coffee for breakfast, could be at home.
Cool overcast morning as our host Yumi see us off with a wave.
Not great riding this morning, very built up and we are not allowed on the major roads. As we found out yesterday. No traffic to talk of it's a bank holiday. Roads are tarmaced but not great. Along with the poor maps we have from various sources everything becomes a little harder. Oh for those long straight roads in Kazakhstan.
Pulled over to bakery around midday and purchased a few items. Curried doughnuts, sounds horrible taste great, no suger on the dough? Pork slice sandwich, Excellent as expected. Noodle bagette, also very good. All topped off with a chestnut loaf, my new personal favourite.
Found a quite spot next to a lake and sat down for our picnic. Within minutes we discovered crickets, large ladybirds and turtles. Linney also spotted a Kingfisher, I never seen it ?
Busy ride today very little open roads or countryside.
Linney saved the best till last again today. The map says it@s 5 mile this way but if I go this way it's only 2.? After a mile and a half we spotted the quay side so popped down to take a look. Nice veiws and a ferry across to a Island. We could use that tomorrow maybe!
As we were leaving we meet a guy from Ireland in his cycling kit. Turns out there are eight of them and their cycling on the days off between game. Having flown their bikes out and hired a van. Nice idea (Dale).
He was in a rush to catch up with his mates so we gave him a card and wished them well.Off we go only half a mile to the Veiw Hotel. (Clue in the name I think.) Rode up the road crossed the railway then a Left turn up the hill. Well I managed the first 400 metres up a very steep alleyway and then came to a set of steps. Linford had made a turn a managed another 60 metres. We looked at each other and said, we can go bach a ouple of mile or drag the bikes up the forty or so steps we could see. No going back. So we dragged the bikes up forty steps, then another forty around the bend, then fifty with a concrete slope to one side to make things easier(not). Then finally around the last bend, 30 metres of hell. We arrive outside the hotel pouring with sweat, to the worried faces of our follow guests. After 10 minutes and i@m still dripping the receptionist comes out with a iced glass of water and a smile on her face. She explained that whenever the get a booking they email back and advise against this route. I wonder why!
Lovely hotel owned by Thai kickboxing champion