However after an in room breakfast, Noel Weetabix and Jennifer bread and marmalade and finished off with a cuppa and banana we packed up and left the Hotel around 10.45 and left Lake Biwa in the pouring rain. Had the weather been better we might have considered using the non Expressway route but with this type of rain it would take forever and so headed for the Chuo Expressway. Each time we start the car a Japanese lady talks to us for about twenty seconds and when we turn the car off she comes back to thank us for using the car, that's what we think she is saying. Or it could be please shut the bloody door but who knows.
We finally arrived at our destination and by chance found an excellent supermarket with so much fresh food and a large display of various kinds of meat but they did not appear to have an muesli which Jennifer was looking for. However we did by some milk and water and a few odd and bits for the next few days. We arrived at the Hotel at the same time as our Japanese friends who live in Osaka and we plan to spend three nights and days together exploring the region which should be really nice.
For dinner Nobu had tracked down a Sashimi restaurant
where we had a couple of beers and some really excellent Sashimi before heading back to Hotel for an early’ish night before starting our tourist bit tomorrow. However there is a blog to do but we did not take any photos as we have enough photos of Mountains and clouds and Japanese houses so far.