Iinan's Inconspicuous Bakery

On Saturday morning, Taryn and I went to Iinan High School, for a practise of the music duet (Aladdin's, "I can show you the World") that we will be performing at the school festival next Friday.

Autumn colours sweeping through Japan.

After the rehearsal, one of Taryn's work colleagues took us to the town hall (or something) where the school festival will be taking place. You can see it in the background of this photograph.

Taryn remembered that someone told her about a local bakery where an old man and woman bake bread which they sell to the local community. The store opens at 12 o'clock, and apparently it closes fifteen minutes later on some days, due to the popularity of their produce.

This is the house from which the bakery operates. The house is fairly unremarkable, other than that it looks very, very new. Inside it even more  immaculate than it looks in this picture.

Outside the house, some berries and fruits are drying in Japan's Autumn sunshine.

We arrived too early for the bakery to be open. With 20 minutes to spare, we decided to take the opportunity to explore the neighbourhood. Although there are houses around, and this is probably a residential area, there is quite a lot of farmland here as well.

Here you can see some of the hay that laid down to separated the fields. (I have no idea why; but it looks pretty doesn't it?)

This picture was taken just behind the bakery, and in the distance, just above the valley in this photograph you can see an eagle souring.

This photograph was taken from the patio of the bakery. It is an amazing view, isn't it?

Needless to say, we went into the bakery, and  bought way more bread than any sane people should buy... and two slices of the best, home-made-pizza we've had since we got here!

The food was delicious, and I felt that I could justify the calories, at least in part, because we were supporting the livelihood of an elderly couple in the local community.

~ The end.

A picture of the author, and his beautiful wife

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