....Ise-Kashiwazaki?

As it's a Sunday, we had a slower start this morning than we'd have liked. Accordingly, it was getting late in the day and there was really only one train heading the way we were going left, so if we wanted to get a bump we needed to think about it. Options were to wait around about 40 minutes to catch it two stops from Takihara or keep walking to the next station and just miss it.

Sad to clip the day shorter, but pragmatists, we rode into Ise-Kashiwazaki and walked about 1.6k out of town to the accommodation that hadn't shown any availability when James tried to book it, but worked when I did. Odd. Foreshadowing.

Looking for advice about how to get in, we pulled up the reservation email and realised I, Lexie Dee Magill, had for the first time ever in the world, made, a, mistake. ITS TRUE CHILDREN. I booked tomorrow. It's currently today. Oopsadaisy.

James plucked me down from the highway barrier I was trying to climb over to drown myself, and we put our heads together. There's one more train heading the other direction. There's a hotel a few stations back. Five minutes later we had a plan and were rewinding. Hung out with nine large spiders at the station for another 40 minutes before a 30 minute train - James seated, me in shame position.Read more