「22日目」Day 22
The last day!
I felt amazing this morning when I woke up, and even happier after I moved the curtains to the side and saw that it wasn’t raining as promised.
When we got ready though, the room started rocking a bit. Earthquake! I didn’t feel one in a long time. Switching on the TV showed that it was in Kiso, where we had been a week ago. (Nothing really major though, just daily business.)
最後の一日！起きてから元気いっぱい。そして窓から外みたら雨も降ってなくて、もっと嬉しくなった。
準備中に久々の揺れ。地震だ！テレビをみたら、先週にいた木曽町は震源地に5−は激しい。皆さんは無事だといいね。
From our start point in Seta we walked through residential areas mainly. After a while light rain started – which basically determined the day: it was cloudy with showers on and off. An umbrella did the job though.
We crossed a bridge at the exit of Lake Biwa and were waiting for a traffic light, when a pigeon pooped full force down on me. I jumped back but got hit on my thumb and shoulder. We had quite a laugh. Good that I bought this old kimono with flaws extra for the trip.
瀬田からは殆ど住宅街を通りました。午前中は少し雨が降ってきて、今日は基本的に雨を軽く振ったり止んだりした天気でした。
琵琶湖につながっている瀬田川を越えてから、信号待ちに鳩にフンされました！ビックリしてすぐによけたけど、もう手と着物の袖に当たってしまった(笑)
本物に笑いました。古い訳ありの着物で良かったなーw (⌒-⌒; )
10 km outside of Kyoto we noticed an old place which had a handwritten note of Soba noodles being available for lunch so we had a look inside.
Turned out to be an amazing house with a 400 year old Japanese garden as the old man told us. The small waterfall is spring water, that’s why the pond was crystal clear. We had our lunch while viewing this magical scenery.
京都の10km殆ど前、素敵な建物のサインは気になって入ってみました。手打ちそばのランチ。
そしてとても美しい庭が！なんと400年前と言われ。池に流れ込んでいるのは湧き水。その景色を楽しみながらランチした。偶然に見つけてラッキーや。
Afterwards we basically walked straight through towards the goal with occasional raindrops.
We reached our goal, the Sanjo Ōhashi Bridge in Kyoto at 14:21 in the afternoon. I was so moved that I couldn’t hold back my tears… I couldn’t believe it’s over.
22 days of walking – but looking back it feels so unreal. Like if I just left home 3 days ago.
終点、京都の三条大橋には2時21分に到着しました。橋に立った瞬間にとても感動し、涙がポロポロと…
22日間の旅。ここで一気に終わってしまうのも想像できなかった。あっという間に感じた旅。
It was a nice journey with ups and downs like life itself.
The first five days were the hardest due to my body not being used to excessive walking and the new sneakers gave me so many blisters… But I learned how to handle and prevent, then we got scared by the hotel folks with their horror stories about the blood sucking worms which made us sprint through the hardest mountain on our route and probably damaged my Achilles and other tendons in my feet, slightly sabotaging our trip.
A little rest and medication helped me finish this trip though!!
Giving up was not an option for me and I’m glad all worked out.
人生と同じく、楽しい時と辛い時もありました。やはり、最初の5日間くらいは一番大変でしたね。体は激しい運動になれなくて、新しいスニーカーで豆はありすぎて。。
でも少しづつ色々勉強になり、体も強くなってきた。人間って不思議な生き物ですね。(笑)
ただ、民宿の怖い話を信じてから休まずに碓氷峠を登ってからアキレス腱などにダメージを受けのはバカらしかった。
諦めるのは絶対に嫌な私には辛かったけど、薬と休みで旅を無事に終わりました。
天気は信じられないくらいに良かったので本当にありがたいでした。梅雨にほぼ毎日の晴れ天気のは植物に可哀想と思って、でも私達に良かったでした。
Also I’d like to thank the guy up there for protecting us along the journey, that we didn’t get eaten by bears and also for the almost ever sunny sunny weather- which was unreal in the rainy season!! Such a blessing!
Finally I’d like to thank you all for your encouragement along the way and all the people who followed our adventure here and across social media! You rock.
皆さんの応援やこちらとSNSでのコメントありがとうございました。とても嬉しかったです。
これから前の日記にも、新しい記事にももっとインフォを残したいと思います。
(I will add more info/pictures to my blog posts once I’m home in July and also write up a list of Tipps and how-to’s after this post.)
Walked distance:
20.7 km
Seta to Sanjo-Ōhashi (Kyoto)
歩いた距離:
20.7 km
瀬田から京都の三条大橋まで
Money spent:
Breakfast: 410¥
Train: 380¥
Lunch: 3100¥
= 3890¥
(Not counting after the official trip ending)
Today’s thoughts:
Good: Overwhelmed with happiness.
Bad: Feeling weird/scared of going back to my previous lifestyle.
Keep in touch,
じゃまた
Anji
