Saturday - 22 May 2010 - Okayama - Day 8

Today we are in Okayama after breakfast we are catching a train to the place where the twine/rope swing bridge is.

We rode in a double decker train and we were in the top section of it. While travelling we crossed the longest suspensions bridge in the world, it goes for 7.5 klms which is a long way in any mans language.

The town was not as big as Okayama but was still big.

We now have it down to a fine art of what to do with the luggage on the train as well as when you arrive at the town. One the train you go to the back of the carriage and put your luggage behind the seats, sometimes you have to move quickly to do this as there are only two seats so you can see why if the carriage can seat 40 people and if they all had luggage you have to move and then when you get to the town you put your luggage into the baggage holders section. Anyway we did this and then caught the train out to the swing bridge and I have to admit it was fairly disapointing. I thought it would be well up off the water but in fact it was only a couple of feet and not very challenging so we did the walk and then went onto see another garden but by that time my feet were very sore because it was a long walk from the station to the bridge and to be honest I was buggared.

We got back to town and then caught another train back to Okayama. We went back to the original hotel and then after a bit of a rest went out to dinner.

This time the restaurant didn't have photos or and english menu but a another visitor to the restaurant helped us and we got feed ok. But we didn't know if we had received everything so we just sat there. I did notice that one of the waitresses had walked out of the cafe and then a few minues later she bought back one of the girls from the hotel. who explained to use that we had received all our food. We paid for the dinner and then left.

Alan wanted to do some washing so we went to a corner store and managed to buy some detergent in sachet and I thought I let him do his washing. So together we put everything in the washing machine and came back to the room. About 3/4 hour later he went back and said it wasn't dry so he WASHED everything again but this time for 90 minutes, but this time it was 10.00 pm and I thought it getting a bit late to do that but it was already done. Well I've had a bit of a chuckle to myself. He has just come back with his washing and bugger me if it's still wet so now we have hung it up all around the place and fingers crossed it will be dry in the morning otherwise it will be smelly by tomorrow night.