Ohayo gozaimasu

Clocked a cat within three metres of the door on our morning walk, VERY good start, you can see him there crouching in the garden - didn't want a bar of us but then maybe he'd just got up and who can blame him.

Heading back for breakfast we passed a mother and daughter leaving the house, mum trying to keep the loose ends of an enormous cat with folded ears in her arms, and daughter in school uniform. We waved, mum made the cat wave, we all had a whale of a time.

I've spent the entire rest of the day thinking about the savoury croissant we were then delivered at 7.30 - one of three carby delights each - filled with sort of very light potato salad and ham. Sadly I had to leave the yoghurt, there's only so much action my tum can see before lunch.

Speaking of, we safely tucked out lunchboxes into our bags, then got dropped back at the rest area at 8.30, ready to start day two.Read more