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Thursday Nov 7, 2019 #
Road cycling 2:45:00 [3] 55.0 km (3:00 / km)
shoes: Hired/borrowed clunker
First day of 2 day ride in Lake Biwa area, Maibara to Furuhashi, near Nagahama. Bikes were cheap roadies again, Colnago for me and Ridley for PP.
The first 25kms along the Eastern shore of Lake Biwa -sounds nice, but you are either riding on a busy road next to the lake, or on a path (not a bike path as we would know it) on the lake side of the highway, with trucks, buses and cars wizzing past. Then it's through a short tunnel (350m) under a range of low, but steep hills to a wide valley, then more path alongside a highway to the turn off to a small lake (Yogo) in a side valley with steep hills all around - quite a pleasant spot. The route then retraces to a turn off at a busy town (Kinomoto) and some tricky nav to find our way to the village of Furuhashi some 7-8kms away. Lost our way a little trying to find the Ryokan, but eventually got there, and went virtually straight into the onsen (marvellous!).
Dinner was another traditional affair, managed to eat most of it, after which we polished off a 250ml bottle of premium sake. Had intended to take another hot bath before bed, but the sake sent us to bed early.
The first 25kms along the Eastern shore of Lake Biwa -sounds nice, but you are either riding on a busy road next to the lake, or on a path (not a bike path as we would know it) on the lake side of the highway, with trucks, buses and cars wizzing past. Then it's through a short tunnel (350m) under a range of low, but steep hills to a wide valley, then more path alongside a highway to the turn off to a small lake (Yogo) in a side valley with steep hills all around - quite a pleasant spot. The route then retraces to a turn off at a busy town (Kinomoto) and some tricky nav to find our way to the village of Furuhashi some 7-8kms away. Lost our way a little trying to find the Ryokan, but eventually got there, and went virtually straight into the onsen (marvellous!).
Dinner was another traditional affair, managed to eat most of it, after which we polished off a 250ml bottle of premium sake. Had intended to take another hot bath before bed, but the sake sent us to bed early.