Oh my goodness, what a topsy-turvy start to day… really going on for a few days since Typhoon(s)… While we didn’t get hit hard but dealing with some unpreventable & unsuspected problems so currently preparing for a fumigation and heading out to an unintended “hotel vacation”.
A busy post holiday week in August meant most everything was booked, and, in general, you have your choice of elegant/full-service, traditional ryokan or “highly efficient, but spartan and charmless” business hotels… Darling wife found us a groovy, kind of faded glory resort-y kind of place, seaside in commercial port harbour village about 40 minutes away.
[Update] Impromptu hotel night included:
- outdoor inland-sea-side pool swim
- a quirky cafe w/ cool boss (Hiroshi Kobayashi at Tereya Cafe)
- tiny picka-picka shrine
- hotel onsen
- sharp pyjamas
Some evidence follows:
& now cuddled up with travelling correspondence kit
Summary: Making mango-ade outta fumigation downer
Bonus: after the hotel which included to swim in the pool, and I soak in the very hot seaview onsen, we went to our “usual” beach Nishiwaki for a dip in the ocean, a lousy ukulele song, and a bit of a meal and a snooze in the groovy little café.
