We woke up after a lot of rain in the night luckily the tents were still waterproof.

Started the day by moving all our stuff down to a large covered shelter as we thought it might rain. It was good to lay everything out. And have coffee and bread with peanut butter for breakfast, along with a pot noodle, well a bit fancier than that, but in essence it was a pot noodle.

There seemed to be a lot of staff walking around the campsite, and one of them came to talk to us. I think he said that it was okay for us to be there and that it opened at 9 o’clock it was hard to work out what opened at 9 as the campsite was closed, he said that two.

Finally we got slowly moving, the day started with a very steep descent, through a bamboo forest.

Cycling was through a mixture of fairly busy roads and some lovely rural routes. The route planning that Cliff did paid off well, and cycling following the route on GPS made it a lot easier than having to check a map regularly.

We stopped off at Kintaikyo Bridge
錦帯橋 which was very impressive one of the top three bridges in Japan. It looked lovely with all the cherry blossom 🌸 🌸🌸🌸

We stopped for lunch outside a supermarket. We went a bit crazy and got quite a bit of food.

The weather was good, apart from a head wind. We stopped at a post office to buy a few stamps, for the previous referred to postcards.

We made good progress to Tokuyama, where Cliff dad met us again at the Route Inn Tokuyama Ekimae Hotel
ホテルルートイン徳山駅前

We spend a bit of time in the hotel room laying out our wet things including tents. Then we put the air con on hot to dry everything. This seemed to work. We had a shower before heading out for a lovely meal with Cliff’s Dad and his uncle and family. We had a lot of food which was very tasty in a small pub type restaurant

Nishimura
にしむら

We got to bed a bit later than we would have wanted to but not that late. Have to get up very early for the ⛴️ ferry tomorrow.