This is an amazing country honestly. Everything works so efficiently and there are people employed everywhere to direct you, clean up after you, polish the windows of the train between each trip, keep everything working efficiently, wave and bow to every carriage of the train as it leaves the station etc, etc.
So off we headed this morning to get on our 2 trains to transport us from Kanazawa to Hiroshima. At the change over at Shin- Osaka we bought the Bento box and the little bottle of wine (beer for R) and off we set for the second half of the journey. Then to our hotel which is incredibly plush (more so than the last minute price suggests). We can’t breathe without being bowed at. Actually its a bit embarrassing, we feel sloppy in our thongs and jeans. Once again we have a room each…it seems better that way!! Then Rose was on a mission to find a laundromat….which she did thanks to the exceedingly clever Mr Google. It was a Km away and off we set. We found it, put on the load of washing and then found this absolutely superb coffee shop. Definitely the best coffee I’ve had in Japan albeit expensive. And the man spent ages doing the above…it was so lovely. And to add to the joy we also had the best cheesecake of all time….all this and heaven too!!!
Washing finished and then for the KM back to our palace….remembering that we were foolishly in thongs. Walked out of the laundromat and it bucketed so I, at least, slipped and slithered my way home fearing for my life (or at least a limb) all the way. But here we are. Our routine trip to the Family Mart or 7/11 for supplies of alcohol, a break before a meal tonight. We won’t be going far, its raining!!
More when we get back. Oops here we are back already. So…a chat to my darling Lou and his Dad (also my darling) and then off to find somewhere to eat.
This extraordinary hotel is on the edge of a complex which, combined with the multiple hotel restaurants, provides a further endless array of restaurants. We went to a modest place that served the most divine Okanomiyaki which is the amazing Japanese omelette stuffed with whatever you want. I had cuttlefish, squid and prawn and Rose had pork and an egg on top. They serve it onto a hot plate in the middle of your table and you eat it from there. SO delicious. We really enjoyed that. We then took ourselves up to the cocktail bar on the 33 fl but sanity prevailed and we decided to come down to the room(s) and have our wine.
Tomorrow it’s off to the memorial park and museum…hopefully the rain will have stopped by then.