Shaun the Sheep

We set off for our "weekend" in Lake Biwa late yesterday morning. 

First, lunch in a Convenience Store off the highway. I do like the Japanese convenience stores. You can buy everything you might want for a picnic or for lunch or even dinner and they are EVERYWHERE. I had a remarkably healthy fish sandwich with some salad on the side and some dried mango after.

Then we went to Shaun the Sheep's Farm, set in an "English" garden pretty much out in the middle of nowhere. A little bit of Wensleydale, set in the Japanese countryside!

A hobbit house, if ever I saw one

Wensleydale has changed a bit since I was last there :-D

Then we took the slow road, along the shoreline of Lake Biwa to Ōtsu, where we are spending a couple of nights with Austin, Kaori and Tatsuki in a tall, tall hotel with stunning views over the lake and over the city.

Lindsey and I have a lakeside view:

Dawn this morning, seen
from our room

The buffet breakfast is included in our room rate but the buffet evening meal is not. So we went into Ōtsu to a cheap family restaurant for  dinner. The price might well be cheap, but the food was delicious. My chicken main course was absolutely perfectly cooked