南アルプス「農鳥小屋」手前で、 猛烈な雹に降られた後に見た青い富士・・・。 真夏だというのに、 なんかヒヤッとした肌合いを感じた・・・。 ＞クリックで大きくなります＜...

今日は朝から岡山です 高松駅、やっぱり「さぬきうどん」駅でした Sent via bloguru mobile....

We spent the night in a town called Imabari, woke up early the next morning, and headed off to temple number 54. We arrived well before opening time - 8am - but the priest kindly opened early and stamped my father-in-law`s book. Temples 54 - 59 were quite close, and only one was a little up a mountain, so we manag...

In some of my photos you can see people wearing white clothes & conical (= cone shape) hats. This is the traditional dress for pilgrims [gyouja]. Because I was cycling, I didn`t wear them, & I couldn`t carry a walking staff [kongoutsue] either. That`s kind of a shame, because they`re very ornate & colorfu...

While trying to find out how high henro temple number 45 (Iwaya-ji) was, I found this interesting GPS graph. It was posted online by someone who cycled the same route. I think the beginning point is Matsuyama, & the final point is Iwaya-ji. I feel tired just looking at it.

Day 2 was the toughest day of our trip - we had to climb a big mountain. Sometimes we rode, sometimes we walked, and sometimes I just sat down by the side of the road, ate a mandarin [mikan] (Ehime prefecture is famous for mandarins) and cried for a while. It was hard work. But coming down the other side was fun...

We were on Shikoku for four days altogether. These are some photos from the first day. If you have any questions, please ask me in Comments. For example: - What kind of flowers are those in the second picture? A: They`re cosmos. - What kind of crab is that? A: Sorry, I don`t know. I saw a few of them on one mount...

これはカサブランカと呼ばれるユリですよね。 花が大きく堂々と咲いてました。 こんなに寒くなってから咲く花でしたっけ・・・。 なんかもっと暑い時に咲いてる気がしますが・・・。 咲きっぷりは堂々としてますね。 ＞クリックで大きくなります＜...

During our school`s autumn holiday, my father-in-law & I took our bicycles to Shikoku Island to continue our cycling tour of the island`s 88 `henro` temples. As you can see from this map, we completed about a quarter in 2008, another quarter in 2010, & this time we managed about the same. The weather was g...

お腹もいっぱいになった所で、今回の成果の発表です。やっぱり皆さんあまり採れなかったようで、先回よりも数が少なかったです。 雨が降リ続いて３週間ほどしないとほとんどのキノコは出てこないそうです。 シャントレルが良く採れる場所だそうですが、さっぱりでした。 来週も違う場所でありますが、期待できないそうで...