Hiroshima to Onomichi
First of all, I would like to talk about the preparation done in little time.
I purchased the touring bike, two side bags for rear tire, gloves, helmet, and sleeping bag. As my job kept me so busy that I had not had time to buy them until the last minute, which annoyed me. I wish I had time for training but no time and then I started the cycle trip when I got my vacation after the hec-tic days. I filled up the side bags with stuffs like clothings and sent to the first B&B at Onomichi. So after flying off at the airport, I was only with a backpack. When I recall, it was nothing heavy but as I had not got used to the bike itself, it was hard to make a fast cycling. I had never thought that cycling was so hard before.
We arrived at the airport in the morning and setup our bike which took us for about an hour. We cycled down to Onomichi during day time so taht we could do sightseeing there. I wanted to see the Senkouji, temple. When I travel, I usually plan details beforehand but this time no time for preparation, besides it is a cycling trip which I had never done so I did not know how long I could cycle for a day. So I did not plan detail and just enjoy cycling and sinery which we will see by chance. Well, my travbuddy planned a destination briefly so I was not a blind. But it was a totally different trip from what I usually do. Exciting!
We found out that Onomichi had a lot of temples. We made some of them and saw the town and sea beyond it from an upper little hill. I liked the city which reminded me Varanasi in India in some reason. There are little squiggle streets here and there along which old wooden style houses are there.
The first accommodation, B&B was a nice Minshuku(people use their extra rooms for an accommodation for travellers). We had a good breakfast made by the B&B grand mother who talked about her childhood during the last world war. I only knew about my grand parents' case so that it was interesting to hear her story. She also told us the local products in our breakfast. I like to talk to the local to learn new things while traveling :)
