walkabout-japan

Day 27
In the morning rain I am wandering to the mountains, hooray!
GPS: N 33°, 30.194 ' E 133°, 34.184 '
Place: Kochi on the beach
Etmal: 23 km
Total 603 km
Oh well, yesterday we've had a shower, and it's still going on. Therefore, on Easter Monday (anyway, doesn't exist in
Japan) I get awake from the drumming of the shower. Slowly but surely the rain really gets on my nerves, not because it's
wet and lousy, but because I can't get out the cameras. There are so many wonderful temples here...Anyway, it's my last
day on Shikoku on the beach and now it's time for the mountains, hooray! Concerning the temples and the 88 temples tour, I seem to be the only madman who's still on the road; all the others are sitting in busses, trains or are hidden
in Ryokans. That's the story about the pilgrims and their sorrow... Then I wasted several hours in the rain to get spirit which is quite difficult in Japan. Then I have finally found it in
a beauty salon with 99.5 % of alcohol. (Well, Cheers then and hooray). They sold it to me because I am a Doc, at least
that's what they were saying, but frankly spoken I think they
only wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible. Why? I am not good looking and smelling at the moment, but tell me, where should I wash my clothes and moreover get them dry with such a dirty weather? It's still raining when I start again
my way to the mountains which are somewhere behind the wafts of rain. I am staggering through a town or part of town which could be the rest of an industrial, apocalyptic horror vision of a 19th century's Megapolis. Behind me, Kochi disappears under a quilted bank of clouds which covers it
like a shroud. Yeah, hooray! Now I am camping without any noise at an idyllic riverside on the foot of the mountains
nearby a village that reminds me too of the 19th century. Just like carrot and stick. But I adore this...! By the way, it stopped raining. Somewhere a nightingale is singing, we have about
20 degrees (over zero!). Great! Hooray.


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