All my photos from the past few days are here should i get a better camera?
Day 1 Arrival in Japan - I arrived at Fukuoka airport at 5:30pm. From the airport I made my way to Fukuoka Toei Hotel by Taxi since I was being lazy and could not be bothered to unpack my bike at the airpot then cycle to the hotel. The hotel was great except it lacked FREE computers they only had computers which you had to pay 100 yen per 5 minutes. I also used my first japanese western styled toilet! I love the way they clean your arse, such a pleasant feeling.
Day 2 - I spent the day mostly wandering around Fukuoka visiting places like the yahoo dome and the beach (no pictures of these as I left the camera in the Hotel room) none of which were that great.
Day 3 - My jouney begins! Set off at about 7am were the day started off cool but as it went along the temperture increased to 35 degrees! Whichlater caused me to collaspe along the pavement and was forced to rest in the rest in the shade for a few hours. Due to the heat I begin to start walking and looking for a hotel even though I had barely done half of my intented distance (30km). I eventually found the vove hotel which had hearts for the v had only had double beds and was very expensive but I was willing to pay since I was exhausted. I only realized it was a love hotel when I arrived in my room to find various sex toys, condoms, and maid costumes for sale in a vending machine and all the channels on the tv only had asian porn. This annoyed me greatly as I had wanted to watch wimbledon and beezlebub so I left in the morning feeling very dissatisfied.
Day 4 Journey to Mojiko - Did not like this journey since I got lost several times and began to regret not buying a map earlier and the pavement being very thin which prevented me fron cycling at times. I found a hotel for the night near the entrance to the kammon tunnel.
Day 5 - Mojiko to Ogori - It rained!!!! how I love the rain! kept me cool all day although the rain did cause my camera to break as water had leaked inside of it which meant i could not take pictures of sone orginal Japanese houses and a temple that I had passed along the way, did get a picture of the bridge that connects kyushu to Honshu.
Along the route I taking their was this 1km strech of road through some mountains which had no pavement and was a very narrow road even though it was a ROUTE ( Japanese equilvent of an A-road). Which caused drivers to horn at me so I pulled over and begun walking with bike along the edge of the road were their is ditch which is about 20cm wide adn half a metre a deep. So when a lorry come speeding down the road I paniked and went closer to the edge of the road and fell in the ditch....but i was already soaking due to the rain so i did not mind it that much. Ended up arriving at ogori around 2pm which wasnt too bad cosidering I left at 8am.
I will try to update the blog every 2 days IF I can.
