Thursday, August 13, 2009

A new day dawned.

We awoke at 7.30am and went downstairs to breakfast, it was buffet and you could eat as much as you like. The setting was stunning, it overlooked a magnificent garden which is used for weddings. Up in our room the view is of the sea crashing against the rocks and you can see the mainland. What a place to visit. Well a new day dawned and with it came another adventure. Just when I thought it could not get any better it did. This time we headed for the mountains but first we visited a very busy fish market, I have never seen so much fish. Ayaka and I had a crepe filled with creme and banana and chocolate chip. We also saw a man making very large omelletes which took 18 eggs to make he offered to let me flip it but I said it would end up on the floor. We then continued high up into the mountains with scenery indescribable. We stopped at a hotel for afternoon tea and I had my first taste of green tea icecream. We then went even higher into the mountains where our hotel was located. Outside was very deceiving but the opulence of inside was nothing short of spectacular. We were shown to our room by a lady wearing a kimono and she served us with green tea. Again Ayaka and I shared an apartment type room but the scenery was the thing to talk about it was out of this world. We looked out of a large window onto the most beautiful waterfall which fell into a slow flowing stream, is was just beautiful and at night it is lit up by Japanese lanterns, it was stunning. Ayaka's family had another apartment which even had a sauna in its bathroom. Ayaka and I went shopping at thegift shop, I could not resist buying something. We then went for dinner, again we hadour own private dining room. We were served a total of 11 courses of food, mainly Japanese style fish, the way it was presented was unreal. We also had a delicious bottle of champayne. After dinner we again enjoyed an onsen (hot spring bath) but this time it had been turned into a spa, we also went to the outside onsen it was to die for. We then went to the massage room and had a back and foot massage. After so much relaxing we returned to our room to sleep the night away.

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