To Otaru
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 17 Oct 2017 22:57
The Final Leg of Our Epic
Journey to Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Our third leg of this six hundred and
seventy six mile journey was from Shin Hakodate Hokuto to
Sapporo.
Well, colour us both happy, we were
sitting waiting for the little local train when on a side track in came Red Bear.
Looking left
and right, when he got going it took ages for
all his carriages to go through the station.
Meanwhile, there was a really
annoying woman stuck on a loop telling us where to stand on the platform, to get
on the correct bit of the train. It was also flashing on a TV monitor. I had hoped for ‘D’ for Deer, we got ‘C’ for Cow. Say a word and it will hurt. I wasn’t, I was only thinking it. Hear Pepe
growl.
After fifteen minutes of the
Minnie-sound-alike, our little girl
arrived.
Almost immediately we had scenery.
We wiggled a
bit around Mount Komagatake.
Shame the windows were a little dirty,
but still, lovely.
Bear decided to eat his late lunch. Oh My. What with the egg in his salad, the bits
of crab and opening his chicken..........
.........I wasn’t sorry to get a breather at Sapporo. The nice Fat Controllers came over and asked us if
we were OK. We showed our tickets and they each said “Third train”.
One of our
super smartly turned out, skinny, Fat Controllers as
Bear stands messily out of a queuing
line.
Our train
appears on the monitor.
Three stops (yellow blobs) on the map.
On the dot, our
fourth and final girl came in.
Forty two minutes later we were at
Otaru Chikko Station.
Outside, we followed the arrows to
our hotel down a covered walkway, turned
left and went down another long walkway and there we were in a huge shopping mall. If you arrive after ten at night you
have to leave the station by an outdoor exit and walk along the road.
We walked for ages passing loads of shops, then suddenly on the right, there was our hotel
entrance.
Beds soon
settled. We had two beds, sort of big singles, I knew at
once we would snuggle on the one. Too right. You pick
one and I’ll be there. (Bear won’t sleep by himself unless I am on
watch on Beez) we have to do it then, what you would
expect, strange and I do miss you but not now. OK then. Snuggle it
is.
Another amazing
toilet. Seat heat set on low, soon turned to high.
Within minutes our room had the ‘moved in look’, glad to see
your case on the other bed. It can be moved you
know. But...... We were settling to cob a squat (picnic)
with cheese rolls, a banana and a shared packet of crisps, we know how to
roll......
ALL IN ALL A GREAT JOURNEY TO
A LOVELY TOWN BY THE SEA
THE JOURNEY WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF A LIFETIME
AMBITION
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