If you know me, you also know that I love weird airports, ferries (any and all) and beautiful and dramatic bridges. Satyaki mentioned a visit to another castle or pagoda, which would have been nice, but then mentioned the Akashi Bridge. We decided to make that Sunday’s visit as well as a trial run at the train change and getting the Shinkansen (Bullet Train) for my Hiroshima trip on Monday. I will do a separate post for this.
He and I took the kids out Saturday morning for a run around and to hopefully give Snigdha a break, and we went to their preschool on Roko Island maybe 5km away.
It is a nice school focused on expat kids and they enjoy it and are learning well. We climbed up the mountain (in the car) from there and got a good view of the whole of Osaka bay including both Kobe and Kansai airports which are built on man-made islands.
We came home and Satyaki grilled an excellent tenderloin, and mushrooms, after which we all promptly took an afternoon nap.
We walked around downtown Kobe and tried some street food. Rather like a donut, and then we saw a celebration of Chinese New Year as we entered Chinatown.
We ate at a Chinese (very authentic) place on Saturday night. The in-laws of a Cat guy Tay who was a BCP employee until the reorg and now works for HEDC own it. I think he is Japanese, and his wife Chinese but grew up in Japan. Get all of that!!.
Anyway good food, selected by the owner/chef and we meekly ate what was put in front of us. There was only one item that we adults agreed did not taste as we would have liked. The rest was really good and not too expensive by Japanese standards.
Satyaki went for a 12 mile run on Sunday morning in preparation for the Tokyo Marathon next weekend, and I blogged a little and took a walk. There is a river that runs in front of the house and it has some nice walking trails alongside. There are lots of signs and alarms and escape routes because it is subject to flash flooding after rain in the mountains.
Satyaki's home
We then took off for the Akashi Bridge by train. I will, as I have said do a separate post for this.
We went out to a very good Indian restaurant for dinner. Excellent Tandoori chicken (Sneha’s favorite) and Dal Makini (spg?) with black lentils and butter chicken. Superb!!
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