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Cycle Tours / Re: Kyushu, Japan
« Last post by Moronic on Today at 04:05:58 pm »Thanks for the post. Sounds fascinating. How much motor traffic did you meet on those roads, and how courteous were the drivers? Your comment about the 30km of no-car bliss suggests there were enough cars elsewhere to get your attention.
It's easy to imagine the bliss though, whether or not things got sketchy in other parts.
Interesting on making yourself understood. On my one Japan visit, a brief work-related trip 30 years ago, I met a Japanese couple on my flight home who wanted to practise their English but said they could read and write the language quite well, since like most Japanese they had learned it in school.
I didn't get to test that, and had found it easy to order food and the like where I was staying in Tokyo, but I wondered afterwards whether resorting to writing might help sometimes when travelling.
It's easy to imagine the bliss though, whether or not things got sketchy in other parts.
Interesting on making yourself understood. On my one Japan visit, a brief work-related trip 30 years ago, I met a Japanese couple on my flight home who wanted to practise their English but said they could read and write the language quite well, since like most Japanese they had learned it in school.
I didn't get to test that, and had found it easy to order food and the like where I was staying in Tokyo, but I wondered afterwards whether resorting to writing might help sometimes when travelling.