Sometimes during the rainy season, we get little gems of time where the sky looks amazing. As opposed to it looking grey and dull for the rest of the time.

This was a fantastic sunset, although enhanced a little.

This morning, the clouds and mist over the mountains was also extremely nice. This was, unfortunately, impossible to get a photo of because of the amount of electrical lines that are here in Japan. Seriously over done on the electricity part.

Have a great day.

Yes, the most uncomfortable time of year is upon us. It's that time of year where you just wish for some relief from the humidity. It's called the rainy season but it's really the time when it doesn't rain that is the hardest to get used to. I'm not a fan.

I do find the weather here interesting. There is a thinking that if you don't have anything to say, just talk about the weather and you can get by. I find that here, that's just not the case. For good and bad, the weather here throws up some very interesting conversation pieces, if nothing else, it allows us to poke fun at the weather forecasters for being completely wrong almost all of the time.

Plus, a lot of the weather is different from that which I have grown up with. A true winter, and a humid as hell summer. I love the winter, but you can keep that kind of summer.

I tend to look at the simpler things in life. There seems to be a trend to try and make things harder and more complicated as a way of bolstering ones ego or seeming to be more intelligent. I really don't see it that way though.

So I tend to look for simplicity and try to express myself in the simplest means possible. It takes less time, and it's more efficient I believe.

Simplicity is life. Complication leads to all sorts of other problems.

The world according to Craig. :)

Golden week is now over for another year. This year I've done the same as last year. Lots and lots of kilometers on my bike. I loved it!!!!
And, no problems with my bike or tyres this year.

I was also very lucky to have been given the chance to ride on 2 absolutely perfect days. Bright, sunny and with very little wind.

My first day was a 245 kilometer day (my longest, by far) from Anan to Takamatsu, and then over to Shodoshima by ferry, around Shodoshima, and then back to Anan from Tokushima. It hurt. It was a very, very long day. 9 hours of riding in total.

My second day (the next Sunday) was a trip around the outside of Awajishima. This was 153 kilometers and was quite a bit harder than Shodoshima, or so it appeared.

Both days were FANTASTIC. I love living where I do because a lot of these great places are so close. I don't think I could handle living in the city where you can't really be out and surrounded by nature within about 10 minutes on your bike.