Shimada: Lost in Translation

Having figured out the location of the hotel, we cycled further, thinking it was going to be an easy ride...nothing could be further than the truth! A couple minutes after we started it rained profusely. We were wet and the visibility was poor, but we cycled further, since we would like to reach the hotel before it gets dark. Time after time, we met either a dead end or the road that we supposed to take does not allow bicycles...In the end we found an alternative road at the coastside. It was beautiful and we could smell the ocean, the road was quite steep though, we had to cycle up and up and up...along the way there were big signs with alot of japanese writing on them, but without any picture. They seem to be some kind of warning signs, but since we can't read japanese we decided to ignore them. Not until we were near a town called Obama, only then we understood what all the signs was about! There appear to be a huge landslide and a huge chunk of the road is now missing! What a dissapointment, neither our bike Navi nor Google Navi knew about this..theres no other way, we had to turn back and since that was the only road available we had to turn back all the way down. By then it was already pitch black and we were nowhere near the Hotel. Just to fuck with us it started to rain again, alot! We met a couple more dead ends but after hours of cycling we arrived at the town where the Hotel was. We then asked the locals around about the Hotel, they were so kind to walk us to it! After 9 pm we finally arrived at the Hotel. What a day! We were so tired, we didnt have any lunch that day and was not in a mood to go out for dinner..we just grabbed some instant noodles and breads from the covenience store and slept like babies....Read more