Woke up breakfast in the hotel room coffee made. Peep show watched and we were ready to go by 9 ISH.

Riding through the city wasn’t nice but wasn’t bad, and then we hit the back road very quiet lovely food views. Climbs not as bad as predicted due to the tunnels. Some lovely scenery lots of cherry blossom and bridges.

Lunch got from supermarket one (see below) was eaten at a Roadside Station Mie
道の駅 みえ this is a bit like a service station but without any fuel. Also I don’t think it had any ev charging but I did look that close. This had good views down a valley.

3 super markets stop today. First for lunch in a small village pretty good selection of stuff. Second large one was hard to find stuff only took cash! Third little one pretty good selection had a rice polishing machine outside which somebody was using.

We planned to stay at a campsite named above was also at a road station Rodeside station Ume
道の駅宇目 展望台 think the Japanese might have the word observation deck in it.

When we arrived the campsite looked pretty roped off. But we rang the reception door bell a few times nothing happened well the bell rang I side but nobody came out. Then we spent a while deciding what to do. Agreed that we should ask in the farm shop. Quite a bit was lost in translation involving another customer who later gave us some really good kimchi, very kind.

Summary was they said the campsite was closed we could stay there but we could camp on the edge of the service station car park or by an observation deck. The observation deck was very well roped off as it was basically rotten.

We decided against those two options because there was nowhere around the edge of the car park that would have been good to camp, b it would have been really hard to carry everything up to the top of the observation deck area and the weather vain was very squeaky.

We went bad to the original option which was to go with the closed campsite. We found a pitch fairly far away and well hidden. The campsite seems fully operational with all the taps turned on toilet open heated seat on.

We made or curry boil in the bag rice and colour vegetable curry with added mushroom, tofu and carrots. Was a lot better than it sounded. Washed down. With a beer supermarket 3 see above.

Watch episode of peepshow spoke to Sarah the phone which was good to catch up on news from home and have general chat in bed writing this. Seems cold doing okay.