As ex-Amsterdamers we love two things: bikes 🚲 and free stuff 🤑🆓 So even though the plan was to have a rest day today, we couldn’t resist the free rental bikes offered by the Kōchi Tourist Center. We didn’t want to walk, but nobody said that we couldn’t cycle to the temples 😉

It was another beautiful sunny day ☀️ and it was very pleasurable to cycle around. It took some time for us to get used to bike on the left side of the road, but by the end of the day we had cycled for almost 40km and visited temples 34, 33 and 32!

For dinner we had a delicious japanese curry 🍛 in a food court inside a beautiful book shop. We also reunited with our fellow hiker Tani, who finished her pilgrimage today and came back to spend one last night in Kōchi.

The rest days are doing good to Maike’s foot 🦶! Our plan is to take one more rest day tomorrow and restart our walking pilgrimage on Wednesday 🥾✌️

Bruno 🚵‍♂️