Day 8: Raining&Indoor playground

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🛥️
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🛥️
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 ferryLeer más
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 warmLeer más
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 🚴 😱, theLeer más
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…
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 forLeer más
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 (withLeer más
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 mysticalLeer más
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 forLeer más
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 YoshinoLeer más
Così i bambini resistono.. vediamo più avanti... ciaooooo [Sandro Fornai]
Viajero🐯