Lake Biwa to Yonaga

This morning from when we first awoke and for the next 90 minutes we had, sun, clouds so that you could not see the ground from the 32 nd Floor and driving rain, not what we wanted at all.
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.

So off down the Cho Expressway and skirted around \Kyoto and though the outskirts of Osaka and continued heading West until it was such time to change Expressways and headed North through vary mountainous country along with a number of Volcanoes en route. We stopped for lunch in a service area for about half an hour and then continued on pretty much empty roads, just heaven and so different to the UK motorways. The view were pretty damn good and we wish we had more time to take the normal roads and stop and take photos but in the end we did a bit of videotaping of the roads instead using the small Nikon camera.
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.