Nice simple breakfast, rice, pickles and coffee.
Bright day with dark clouds over the mountains.
Nice but hilly ride for the first 20m, lots of small orchards and rice fields. Dotted around the hillsides. Lemons, limes, kiwi fruit and green tangerines abundant in the trees. Some already bagged?
On one of the descents Linney's back brake was play up again. so we pulled over and changed his brake pads and adjusted my own. 15 minutes and we were away again.
Lots of wildlife about from huge spiders, to birds of prey. Missed this sort of stuff throughout China.
Lunchtime we pulled over at a local bakers, the array of cakes and biscuits is quite amazing. We made our choices and set out for somewhere to enjoy our lunch. After a short time we settled on the quayside. Unwrapping our precious lunch. Linney with his curried doughnuts, me with butterscotch muffin and to top it all a loaf of chestnut bread. All wonderful sweet stuff.
Only 30 to go this afternoon, sun still shining and the wind behind us. As we dawled alond a fellow touring cyclist sped past. I looked up to see Linney drop his gears and set of in pursuit. That's that then and off I went. Wasn't long before Linney was reeling him in and I would be there shortly. Turns out the guy was German, traveling very light and in a hurry to catch a ferry. We rode as a group for 5>6 miles a group before he went his own way. Turns out he had arrived in Japan to take part in a particular race that was shortened due to the tornado.
Only 10miles to go now, my garmin says 3000+ of climbing. That can't be right? Three tunnels Linney say's. We are not allowed through tunnels son. I hope we are because the alternative is not very good dad. What should we do. Crack on and see what happens we agree. Pleasently surprised to find the cycle paths following the roads. Although the lighting in them was very poor in places. Out the last tunnel and a steep 4 mile descent to the hotel. Lovely, booked in smoothly and soon in the shower.
Great day all in all.