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03
Oct
2009

The rain pours down, only ... ..

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And I'm so wet on both shoes o socks ... .. But it dries. After rain comes sun, so we still hope.

When you take into the hotel here so you get traditional Japanese clothing as you can "cuddle" in and around Kjell took the opportunity to finally try these when we lived in a hotel. Here's where J-san ....
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Add flair to Japan may be looking for ....

Japan ... .. This is beautiful it can not be denied. We've been running around a small peninsula to the east of Osaka. You can not continue to run here all drive very carefully. Max 60, and I think we had an average speed yesterday at about 30-40 km / hr. The roads are very nice and in great condition, no holes and no bumps here. The only concern is that they have a lot of painted markings on roads and they can become slippery in the rain so you have to be careful where they are.

låga moln i bergen
Clouds and mountains ...

It is expensive in Japan it can not be denied. Staying in a hotel you may be up to between 1500 - 2000 kr. (In Korea, we found the motel to 160 per night) A typical lunch costs around 120 SEK. Gasoline costs about as at home in Sweden.

We stopped in a small fishing port and liabilities bit and then we decided to take a few short dared the rain.
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We have to be afraid of the cameras. Electronically equipment does not like rain. Two GPS's are freaking out and now does not work Karin's old comrade, the retractable Nokian, either. We have also been scrapped away some chargers and other equipment that does not like the climate.
Good thing we have options for loading and Kjell are good at cooking things.

What we understand of the news here in Japan so they had tsunami warnings here too. Now it had time to decay before it got here but this was the case at all prepared for it could be. When you drive along the coast here we see everywhere high crossing and everywhere there are signs that tell you how high above the water you are. So they know the problem exists.

We just saw the weather forecast on TV to the south coast of Japan's raging right now 2 pc typhoons, one seems to head to China, but the second may well go toward Japan. Sooo .... we'll see how it goes, we should at least not camping that night.

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01
Oct
2009

Better weather today and wonderful ways.

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We stayed the night at a nice place and worked with a girl named osom Nagika. She was so sick of talk that is not how often they can speak English here. The reception at the hotel called "Cloak".
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The girls who worked in the Cloak "wanted to be in the picture.

Today we drove along some great motorcycling roads. Spirit Loop between hills and houses and the sea. The coast is very beautiful here. But in a densely populated country such as this one can understand the need to build everywhere. Along the coast, it is built where it is possible to build, you can not see the borders between villages. Where one village ends the next begins. We stopped and took some nice pictures along the coast

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Beautiful coastline N33 29 252 E 135 47 656

Even today, it was a bit cloudy and we got some spray on us just before we found a hotel for the night. We live in a small place called Kumano N33 53 778 E136 07 015

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30
September
2009

Nippon, rain's kingdom ... ..

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Today we drove from Osaka and put on a peninsula east of Osaka. It has been raining all day and now tonight, we finally give up and flee into a hotel along the coast. Here we learned that the rain is the aftermath of Typhoon in Philippines and Vietnam. For a while when we drove in the days it rained so much that I have never seen so much water fall down from the sky. Despite rain gear, waterproof motorcycle trousers over, boots that are tight with the GoreTex, so I was soaked to the skin. Good thing that in all cases was about 24 degrees would otherwise be frozen fingers off.

Too bad it has been raining so much here for today's beautiful otherwise, but it does look almost nothing when it steaming up in helmet and goggles. The area which we travel in the Kansai region and is now called the peninsula that we are called Wakayama. We are currently in the Kii-Tanabe a small town out to the coast N33 46 128 E135 18 110

It was not at all a few short today because we were afraid that the cameras would drown, but we keep our fingers crossed that the weather is better tomorrow so that we can shoot a bit.

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29
September
2009

Nippon, the sun's realm ... ..

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The view from the hotel ... ..

They let us ... ...
but it also took a whole day to tidy up all the papers. First, we examined o out duties were then checked in the bikes, it was mostly a formality and it was mostly questions like "How much is one of those in Sweden" or "how many cylinders it has." When I asked what it was in the bag one side so I said that there were clothes in it. I asked if I would open it but I did not. I did not open a box or bag all the way ... .... But it took about two hours.

Then came the stoll sample. We, me and Kjell alone would go to Osaka with the other registration documents, Carnet paperwork and everything else to get this approved out of J: A: F Japan Automobile Federation, the Japanese equivalent of the motor officers.

We got a map of the metro and train lines in the three-million city. First, we go underground a bit, then we would switch to commuter who joined in a ring road around the city, then we would switch to yet another train, and finally a piece of subway again. Now is not Japanese characters something that I have studied so deeply, so it was not easy finding your way. Fortunately, it is in English here and there too, but just know where to look. It took us an hour and a half to implement, but we got there eventually.

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Karin Y: A: Q:'s office

We received the papers needed for some problems because a letter of Kjell registration was not right, but finally accepted the paperwork and we could start on the journey back to port again. Now we knew a little more about how this worked so it took only about an hour to go back again.

Now awaiting custom. We went there and got our stamps and signatures and all the papers were audited o called and eventually we were ready, almost. Back to the port here and we would just Ordan with insurance and payment and a bit like that. The girls in the office had been looking up a hotel for us and we got a map and driving directions there. So at 19:20, we rolled through the gates and out into the dark night to look for a hotel. The boat came to Japan 9:45 in the morning so it was a long day for us before we checked in, ate something and settled in the room.

The boat hit yes. We had a nice cab and got both dinner and breakfast in the price. One of the men spoke very good English and very pleasant. Right as it was when we sat in a bar and drank a beer, he came rushing and had been looking after us on the boat. He had bought an amulet to me (Karin). There was a Korean who spent lucky amulet.

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Karin and amulet and the nice man crew.

We went in, if not the world's largest bridge so one of them. It goes between the Japanese mainland and an island called Shikoku.

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