I ended the last post with a shot of the midnight snack, and coffee service, but before I get going on all of that, here's a shot of the private outdoor bath that we had in our room. We also used the public baths, which had sake that you could sip out of bamboo cups while you soaked. Perfect for recovering from a grueling bike ride!
Breakfast!
Here's the close up of everything: there was fish that we grilled ourselves, tofu with bonito flakes, the three small dishes in the front are seaweed salads, and the oval dish contains an 'onsen' egg, one that's cooked in water the temperature of the baths. There was also salad, grapefruit wedges, miso soup, rice, radishes, and croissant. And a glass of milk. Delicious!
After breakfast we went back to the room, and Karina had a quick nap, while the rest of us got going on making coffee.
There was a little machine for us to hand grind the beans, the the boiling water was poured into a copper pot, to then be poured in a thin stream through the filter. Fun.
This whole experience was so exhausting that we all fell asleep in the car on the way home, waking up just in time for lunch at a cute cafe in another small town down the coast from Maji. No surprise why we were sad to leave Japan!
Then we stopped to check out some windmills, and the waves. This is the life!
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