Day 0: Home Sweet Home
2024年3月16日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
We left (of course) a lot later than we had thought.. and with one tooth less (Lorenzo, after playing frisbee just before leaving 😅).
Leaving!
2024年3月16日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Leaving from Tokyo (but not from home) with an “Omamori” for each bike 🍀. Lino dropped us by car closer to nature and to our first camping, only reachable by boat…
Surprise B-day & Fondue
2024年3月16日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
Day 1: B-day, Tunnel & Land art
2024年3月17日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
First long step today :)
Day 2: cold but with Thomas Train & Fuji
2024年3月18日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
Freezing cold wind 🥶 but spectacular landscapes & a short stop with ThomasTrain at FujiQ
Day 3: cart driver change & long descent
2024年3月19日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Cart driver change (Pierre is too slow with the cart :)), still very cold, some snow around, a few farm animals (of which a big cow ;) ), big roads and tiny ones… A long way down to the valleyもっと詳しく
Day 4: mountains & sea
2024年3月20日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Beautiful sunny day from the mountains to the sea toward Shizuoka. Bye bye Fujinomiya and the old kind man of Koi 🐟, hello orange 🍊 trees! It’s warmer here but lots of wind 🌬️ at the endもっと詳しく
Day 5: 100 Views of Fuji & Tea trees
2024年3月21日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 9 °C
It was worth some detours to admire one hundred views of Fuji during this - long but beautiful sunny day. From the hills, from the tea trees 🌳 and from the beach. Nice and warm “minshuku”もっと詳しく
Day 6: bye bye Fujisan…
2024年3月22日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Wind turbines (and lots of cold 🥶 wind) on our way, with the sea 🌊 on our left and Fuji san smaller and smaller in our back… Zoé said the ramen 🍜 was good 👍 in between a few tantrumsもっと詳しく
Day 7: Raining … Taihen desu!
2024年3月23日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
Lots of raining today, a heavenly moment (for the kids) in this super-duper indoor playground and a nightmare for the parents trying to book a hotel for the night in Hamamatsu (no rooms leftもっと詳しく
Day 8: Raining&Indoor playground
2024年3月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Another wonderful day for the kids 🥳 (amazing public indoor children playgrounds & lovely staff members) and… another rainy day for the parents 😅 but getting closer to our first ferry crossing🛥️
Day 9: Ferry !
2024年3月25日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
Arriving (finally) at Irago cape under a mild but annoying rain ☔️. Not the weather to stop and enjoy the nice canola flowers along the road. Ferry ⛴️ ! Kids are very happy to enter the ferryもっと詳しく
Day 10: Hurricane Alert
2024年3月26日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 8 °C
This morning, one of us (guess who) was hesitating in getting on the bikes with a hurricane 🌀 alert 🚨 and heavy rain 🌧️… but one of us convinced (with coffee) the group to leave our warmもっと詳しく
Day 11: Flat tyre … and other problems 😅
2024年3月27日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
11:15 am: We left way behind schedule, but cycling well for 20km, nice weather, beautiful landscapes, cedar & cypress cut trees on the way
12:15am: Flat tyre rear of the yellow bike 🚴 😱, theもっと詳しく
Day 12: Yoshino without Sakura (not yet)
2024年3月28日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
Reaching Yoshino cycling through beautiful landscapes looking for Sakura… very few it is still quite cold. San Kirou, a charming renovated old ryokan is waiting for us…
Day 13: RIP yellow bike
2024年3月29日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
One extra night in Yoshino to … try repairing the yellow bike. Crazy and Impossible. RIP yellow bike… In the meanwhile having some luck in meeting people next door who organized an art atelier forもっと詳しく
Day 14: lighter towards Koyasan 🙏
2024年3月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
With one bike less and even fewer luggages, we have been reaching Koyasan - some of us a little bit by bike some others only train/ropeway/bus - sleeping in a wonderful Buddhist temple Dai'en-in (withもっと詳しく
Day 15: Happy Easter in Koyasan
2024年3月31日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
An unexpected envelope from a monk, friend of Rika san (from Zoé's hokuen), with little presents from Koyasan ♥️ then a walk - bus (back and forth+forth and back+…) to discover this mysticalもっと詳しく
Day 16: reaching full blooming
2024年4月1日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
As Sakuras timidly reach full blooming in the region of Wakayama, we could not reach our objective to find a new bike 🚴 (two nice shops are closed today and tomorrow😅 ). We split in 2 groups forもっと詳しく
Day 17: Sakura as fireworks 🎆
2024年4月2日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
While waiting for the bike shops in Wakayama to open, we took a day of break and went back on our steps, this time with a rented car. Sakura as fireworks 🎆 all around, finally discovering Yoshinoもっと詳しく
Day 18: Buying a rental bike+Mig(Rain)
2024年4月3日, Inland Sea ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
The day started with the contrast between beautiful Sakura garden and heavy rain and migraine… Still full of hope to find a good e-bike! But it turned out to be impossible to find a decent e-bikeもっと詳しく
Day 19: a new beginning :)
2024年4月4日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Our day started with absolutely no idea whether we would be able to continue our trip or not, as the new bike has no easy system to attach the cart 🛒, no bicycle basket 🧺 or luggage rack orもっと詳しく
Day 20: Smoothly, with nice bread 🥖
2024年4月5日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
After having dropped the idea of biking until Mount Tsurugi (no open guest houses and ropeway still closed and some of us happier than others ✌️), we finally got a very well deserved smooth dayもっと詳しく
Day 21: fast & peaceful
2024年4月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Morning at the playground with our Japanese-Belgian friends 🛝. Leaving a lot later than usual but biking very fast 💨 and straight into the valley until the next hotel, with onsen 🧖♀️
Day 22: Marvelous Iya Valley
2024年4月7日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Iya river, beautifully meandering in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains 🏔️, with a Mannekenpis 🤷♀️ peeing down and trying to reach the river, with a surrealist ropeway goingもっと詳しく
旅行者Buon Viaggio 😘
You two (or should I say 4) are the ONLY reason I’ve restarted jogging and I’m trying to be healthier! Bravo Ellie! Bravo Pierre! We are cheering for you - and will buy you all the pancakes you can eat at the crêperie when you come back 😁😁😁😁😁 🎉 🍾 [Anny]
旅行者🤩😋😍