Akashi Bridge

In case anyone is interested, I'm around this area of Japan, sort of. No one ever knows the town I live in because it is a small town in the countryside. But this is the nearest city which usually can get some people to go "Oh yeah I maybe sort of heard of that city name before..." This is the bridge that connects Awaji island to Akashi city.

I was at Awaji island last weekend. My husband wanted to go to the seven temples that Awaji has and get a prayer from each. Awaji has seven different gods looking after it - sounds like a very lucky little island. But the temples are all spread out over the island making it a full day trip. However I did have a class to teach that day so we did set out until one in the afternoon. It was also an insanely hot day that day as well and having to sit Japanese style and get a prayer done in a non air conditioned temple was a little much for me. It was for my clothes, at least. By the end of it... well.. things got a little.. skungy, haha. We didn't even get to all of the temples because the temples closed at five. We only made it to four (half an hour of prayer time for each. Everything between was just travel time!). So we decided that we'd come back to finish everything either this weekend or next month.