Day 17 - Takamasu, Ritsurin-en and Kinashi
A good lie-in today followed by an excellent brunch of pancakes, bacon, an egg and maple syrup! Fuel to face another inferno of a day out there. Something like 34°C and 67% humidity. Phew! The reason we're in Takamatsu is to visit the third and last of Japan's famous gardens that Diana and I will visit. Ritsurin Garden is a 2km walk from our hotel which means we probably sweated a litre of fluid each just to get there. Anyway, here are a few of the photos we took... What a beautiful place! Lots of water and islands. Over 1,400 pine trees, of which, 1,000 pruned by hand! We grabbed lunch from a corner shop and ate it in our room back at the hotel, then I left Diana to go and find a 'bonsai village', at Kinashi, a short way from Takamatsu. Unfortunately, all the proprietors of the businesses were sheltering indoors. I tried hailing them from outside their homes, but to no avail. Finally I saw one old chap and ma...