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Friday 9th November - 2hour bus journey from Shinjuku station to Mt. Fuji. Had a lazy day, starting with a short stroll followed by some shopping for beer. Laney insisted! we updated our blog which im sure you have all read and made new plans.........quickest route to the 7/11 for beer.
Saturday 10th November - bought tickets for sightseeing bus round lake Kawaguchi, stopping at some caves. This killed a whole 10 mins but we took some photos of some quite spectacular ass views (thanks to laney) we will upload them when we get a good computer!! It was freezing today and the bus didn`t come back for an hour and in an attempt to save money for our daily beer intake, we had packed a wee picnic. Sat on a wet bench in our hat, gloves and scarves and chowed down on some rolls, filled with margarine and one slice of ham each. Margarine goes further and costs less!
No sight of Mt. Fuji due to low clouds and rain so we hired bikes from the hostel and cycled 20K around the lake. Laney was laggin behind as usual. About 1 and half hours later we arrived back at the 7/11 and bought our well deserved beer. Returned to hostel for lovely hot shower, noodles and beer. The 2 Israeli chicks we met there felt sorry for us when they saw the culinery masterpiece that master chef Elaine had whipped up. They offered us some of their lovely red meat with red wine sauce to go with our noodles and onions. Sue ate the beef and Laney drank the sauce. Before bed we had to laugh at the Belgians that got lost on the mountains. November is kinda out of season for hillwalkers, nevertheless these t*** ventured up the mountain, couldn`t read the Japo signs and ended up on the highway. Turns out we are not the daftest people on the planet.....be proud mothers!
8pm and it was off to bed. Shame we couldn`t sleep for the Japanese teeth grinding contest which was being held in our dorm. Laney subtly asked them to shut the F**K up, by using a technique called batter the wooden bed frame.
Sunday 11th November - Woke up at 0730 and saw Mt. Fuji for the first time, quite spectacular, made some photos and bought some fags. Walked to the bus station to buy our overnight bus pass. On arrival back at the lake we realised SUSAN had forgotten to buy the flippin tickets. Took a cable car up Mt. Kachi Kachi as it was a beautiful day, walked the rest of the way to the top but unfortunately the clouds had come down over Mt.Fuji. It was sunny all day so we got a little sunburn. Made our way back to bus station to buy our forgotten ticket for bus to Kyoto. Met Yankey Doodle Dandy who thought she had outdone us on exercise for the day so we went for another 5 mile walk, made lots of hugs for Carolyn....a theme which may continue throughout the journey. Met guy from Oz called Mal and a dude from Switzerland called Casper, who was not a ghost but was very friendly. Still 3 hrs till bus leaves so we stocked up on knowledge from new friends. Hard boiled eggs for dinner along with beer and vodka then b***** of a walk to station.
Met 2 yanks from hostel @ station who were surprised to see us still drinkin beer as they watched Laney graciously fall over her rucksack....the Bald watched in much amusement but the yanks did not look so impressed. Crackin bus with recliner seats, hopefully a nice 11hr sleep before arrival in Kyoto. Hope the eggs don`t repeat on us!!!
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