Excellent Thai breakfast this morning at the Sea view Onomichi hotel Seizan. Owned by former kick boxing champion Klahan Prapun. Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, soup and a mixture of cold vegetables. Far better than it sounds.
No rush this morning, back down the hill (the correct way today) onto the ferry then six islands and six bridges in 50 miles.
As we got off the ferry we studied the map along with a couple of local cyclists. We followed them for the first mile, over took and made our own way. The route was shown with a thick blue line along the gutter. Easy, what could go wrong. Approaching the first bridge ther were many veiw points and food outlets. We decide to carry on. Linney for once letting me lead the way. Not long later I had missed the fact the the blue line had changed colour and I'd missed a turning. That was my day at the front over. No worries we backtracked the 100 metres and carried on.
Lovely scenery all around us dark green shrub and trees inland and lovely blue waters out to sea.
Stopped off after the fourth bridge for a spot of lunch at a 7 eleven. Not the best but cheap and convenient.
Didn't take long before we were climbing up to the last and biggest bridge (Kurushima) at 6Km. As we rounded the final bends to the bridge we heard a friendly hello. It was from a guy Max from Brighton, he had been chatting to a couple of dutch lads in their hostel, they had mentioned us. So he'd set off to find us. Nice chap chatted along for the whole 6k of the bridge. Then we made our way into town to find a hotel.