Despite her request for another room he says it’s not possible as the hotel is full. When we finally arrive at the next available road station it’s on the shore. The Japanese around us are pleased Wales have won. The binding is machine stitched to the front, folded over and hand sewn to the back for a nicer look. When they had seen off the North they pushed forward through the country towards China. The mountain slopes are densely packed with trees but the roads also have drainage channels at the side, two to three feet deep and at least a foot and a half wide at the road surface. All around us the mountains have the morning mist clinging to their sides and peaks, a light drizzle is falling intermittently. In the morning over poached eggs, (how versatile am I as a chef?) There are regular information posts on the telegraph poles and lampposts showing how high against sea level we are, there are also escape routes shown taking you up to 165m high. It cause an issue ? Nice breakfast of salmon, rice, meatballs battered something, toast and jam. Chewy has to take her bike up the stairs herself I’m spent. The feeling as my heart rate increases and blood is pumped again with force into my legs and arms only sets it all off once more. With our small white “towels” rolled up under our arms we head off to our separate pools. Three people get in the lift fine then Chewy, alone. Together we passed a lovely afternoon, minus any rugby or beer. We all agree England were incredible. The one with the motorcyclists. At 5 am someone puts a note on the van windscreen in Japanese informing us that we’ve parked in a Sports club car park which is only open at weekends. How hard is it to put on socks when you have difficulty bending your leg? It’s only very recently that the war officially ended as the hostilities were simply halted under a cease fire. It does have a nice bath however and we are told to park the bikes inside the currently redundant coffee and pizza bar. In The food Zone I enjoy a kebab and chips, a load of WiFi and when that’s all done, the excellent company of some Japanese folks. With the afternoon dragging on we reach the final certification centre of the day. It’s serious now, lose and we are on the plane back home! There are Road works blocking the cycle path leaving only the concrete overgrown with vegetation verge at the side of the bridge, with oncoming traffic coming towards us. The massive infrastructure works continue on the coast. It’s a straight road towards town now and we stop at a bakery and coffee shop ( few and far between really) for lunch. FOR SALE: New Orthofeet shoes, women’s, black, 7WW, $75. Up at five tomorrow ready for the six am transfer to the airport. And B I N G O, was his name oh! Hello pavement. The chef at this gastro pub has found a new use for them, cooking cottage pie in! We arrive in Narita-Shi and drop off the bikes and our bag at the hotel and book in. The fire truck is calling something out on a loud hailer. I do recall Chewy guiding me back from the railway station, falling asleep on the benches at the baseball ground and waiting for Shaun who had gotten lost. I ask what it is and how is it used. So good to be clean and relaxed naked in the sunshine and no one batts an eyelid, they do it all the time. By five fifteen the mist is rising around the lower mountains, clinging to the foliage like angels breath. Picture a real motorway services, a busy one with car park attendants because everyone has come to go on the Ferris wheel, or to purchase the fish flavoured crisps in the fish flavoured crisps store. I have no idea what game it is they even play!? As we lift the lid the waiting staff descend upon us once more. Chewy asks him and yes, it’s our bus, bikes inside from the back door. When I was about fifteen I think, my mum had tickets to go on the bus from Neath to London to go to the national Theatre to see the play Habeas Corpus. The two lads have had an exploratory look but decided against a push to the top for various reasons. There was no definition of anything, just the darkest blackness. The post mortem is soon underway and I think we all believed we were in with a shout right up to the end. I broach the subject and she confirms she is knackered. It’s an unbelievable experience. I looked at Chewy and asked if she too had had enough. A stroll along the shores and a dip of the toes into the water is lovely but the sight of at least fifty cormorants cranes and other smaller birds on a sand bank is fabulous under the final apricot glow of the sun in the clouds above and the reflection of the distant mountains on the opposite shore. And I leave it on the passenger seat as they soon appear. It’s two pick up trucks worth in the field. But not for too long as I soon fell asleep. It subsides after about an hour and a half. I’m fibbing I had forgotten all about that. Two fishes a pile of rice, some greens with a chilli sauce, and a cabbage salad with dressing and something which was ribbons of transparent rubbery stuff (not unpleasant but we just don’t know what it was I think possibly a seaweed of some sort) not forgetting the cauldron of soup. Wave after wave of pain rolls over me, spasms as nerve endings exposed to the air react which course through both my calf and thigh which then sets off my forearm. There must be around twenty naked Asian men in front of me. Showered we head off for dinner to a restaurant I’ve discovered on the net. Apart from Chewy and Huw, does anyone else feel these emotions? The red flowers surrounding the “phone box” are glorious and no doubt match the pained expression and colour of my face. We pass on whatever beneficial information we can before they step up too the glass and we make our way to dropping off our bikes. The BBC is a national broadcaster, trouble is the nation is only England. The ride now has an urgency which was not there previously as we were making good time. Moistness immediately starts coating everything as the clouds deposit some of their mass onto the solid ground. The world needs more people like James and Sharon, it would be a much better place. But this is where we are as the sun decides to come out for one last hurrah for the day and bake my scabby skin. There’s two couples in front of us all residents in Australia but one Irish guy and an English girl a welsh bloke in and Irish shirt and an Australian cap with an Australian girl. Tomo is not happy, mine is fine but Chewys front calliper is sticking he says. It’s finally going to happen, hopefully? Our room whilst not the largest is fine and we have decent views over the city. We continue to climb, then drop down and with one turn find ourselves back in civilisation with a normal road , lights and signs. I walk with her not telling her until much later that I felt nauseous as we rode. She develops Herculean strength to pull the bike up then me. A good breakfast is had on the top floor of the hotel and with the bikes safely packed once more we head down in the lift to the streets full of children going to school. I swim to the side and get out and see that the damn thing has leaked water into itself. In the morning we dress in cycle clothes for the first time in eight weeks or so. The luggage also gets a good inspection. An odd chap from North Wales joins us. I’m drained, totally shattered and drained by the emotion of being stuffed and on the rack to securing victory. We find the apartment up a steep flight of stairs, we also find the cleaner who while allowing us to drop off our luggage won’t let us in until 16:00. With the additional underwear purchased we return to the beach to really struggle for a space to park. To have an open training session and it to be over capacity at a city not even hosting a match, where the Japanese sang our anthem. Thank goodness for pictures. We have passed the steel works and are set up for the night, overlooking the works to our far left and the ocean in front of us. As luck had it they’d had a cancellation so we were able to sleep in their apartment that night having sorted out all the necessary paperwork. It’s next to an ancient keyhole shaped burial mound and a preserved number of buildings and features. We ride away and come across a hotel. Clean I enter the sauna. Some from old friends have me close to tears as we sit in Starbucks utilising the WiFi. A dash to the toilets with towel and tooth brush ensured we were clean , top tip use the disabled loo. I’ve also cricked my neck while sleeping so anything to ease that is accepted. I get to the elevator and turn round to get Chewys when I see a bloke in a white shirt carrying her bike. They ask us if we can bag the bikes and confirm we can. Two tickets for Busan please, yes with dinner and breakfast included. Receive a great FaceTime conversation which if all comes to pass will be amazing, won’t say any more but Sundays post could be interesting. It’s miserable and misty in the morning. Yet here we are at 45 minutes into the game 26 8 up this is unheard of. There is another reason the England team are loathed throughout the globe. We’ve asked them to drive our vans as we have had a drink but that’s fallen on stony ground, so I look at the adjacent parking at the baseball park. The city below us is huge, covering so much flood plain with bridges railway stations roads and everything you’d expect. (Dan will always be an Osprey no matter where he is plying his trade ) There’s also a massive relief that we have got through to the semi finals again. The massive Wallabies digging in as they have done so many times. Chewys Aladdin pants that’s the only way I can describe them have come adrift at a seam, providing additional ventilation and no real problem for a seamstress of her skill and ability once she has a needle and thread. The statues to crabs are back and after four and a bit miles we are in a serious fishing town and crab is on the menu, crab and climbing. The bikes go inside. It’s part of a minor complex of outhouses to a building which I have to assume is looking after them. After that we continue along the road with the river on our right hand side. But it’s just too much for me in the end and I have to take my bike and the bag and leave Chewy to hers. We eventually find ourselves in the mini alpes an area of intense agriculture and so I believe great walking. Like Lewis Hamilton they scream past me off into the night, but three bends later they have stopped at the side of the road. The score line quite frankly flattered the Southern Hemisphere. The reason for this is we are just weary travellers. He’s kept in training from the look of him. Oh I’m so sorry. We are so outnumbered by Les Blue in the stadium, there’s also loads of English fans willing us to lose and a huge amount of Irish too. Only recently rediscovered its incredible anyone survived so close to the detonation point. A voice from the river can travel such a long way and appear to be next to you rather then half a mile away on the opposite bank. We are in and the bikes have a suitcase blocking their path. The rest of the nigh became rather fuzzy as we celebrated the excellent victory. And just like the summer time ride the huge grins are lost when we face a crazy hurdle. Oh my god ! The weather is getting worse and we can no longer see the cranes at the port a short distance away. As we come down a set of steps and cross the road I look around and spot the jesters hat of a chap we met in Argentina last year. But now it literally is a leap of faith to jump from the rock to the path and return under the rope. This one wasn’t. With the goodbyes of the chef and her waitress daughter and her schoolgirl friends ringing in our ears we make our way to the new supermarket in town. The noise they make has me nervously checking the bikes for malfunctioning components, but we are ok and soon reach the penultimate certification point, next to a camp site where children fully clothed under an awning are splashing about in a swimming pool. After the first few climbs which are too steep for me and the bike the rest are fine, just long high climbs. It’s much more beneficial than the previous night as I actually get some sleep. The next day is all about the destination we need somewhere to stay for the game but there’s nothing available close in, however we’ve identified a Michie with an onsen. Stand on the right leg pain screaming through every centimetre of flesh, get my left leg over the frame, relax on the left leg. Well this time we got it bang on. Another cloudy start to the day but it’s a short one to start with about five miles to the train station. For quite a while now we have been supplied with “shower towels”. The forecast was for rain, but the day is bright the hotel casting a shadow over the houses close to us. Soy sauce chicken and chicken with green onions are ordered. The bridges continue to be exciting points of crossing , the latest a foot and cycle suspension bridge, further on we come across what appears to be a monumental rope bridge between two mountains. Right turn out of the hotel, past the hospital the chemist shops and then a right through the park and down the road to the ocean waves crashing on the shore. At Nackanomanchi we see a group of cyclists on the opposite side of the road. Kat and Seb are only staying one nigh as they have to return the van before having a few days in a hotel in Tokyo and then return to Germany, but that’s short lived as they are starting a new life in Namibia. It’s closer to James place of work and means he doesn’t have a commute of several hours in the morning although the return will take him some time. I speak to the bands manager he confirms we will get tickets. A set of rugby posts are not however so it’s great to see them in a riverside park. You can’t always see them either as vegetation grows over the top onto the road surface. I’m totally distracted from my anxiety for the impending do or die match through spending half an hour or so in their company, a chill out session which if it was possible to bottle would be worth a fortune. The first mile or so is all down hill so there is relatively little pedalling while I get comfortable, comfortable not really a word I’d associate with the mornings ride. Like the Fiji match we are on our heels and in deficit before you can blink an eye. We buy the tickets. The strain on the tendons behind my right knee is troubling but apart from that we are good to go, so we do. I’ve no idea what happened to the other chap who was telling us how he was intending to go to Seoul next. We can take the metro a few steps away. His phone call is to get better signage and lights and his shouting at Chewy was to stop her being impaled on the scaffolding. The Irish have a right monk on, leperacan suits and all. I’m almost sure I saw one with stencilled, on it. 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