Caution! Snakes!

長崎の町が見渡せる高さまで登ったけれど。

草むらを分け分け。二番目、まむし注意。

掃除を終える⇒すばやく着替える⇒昼休みショートトリップ。

昼休みのわずかな時間を利用し出掛けております。

最近は、あかりスタッフで話題となっているとある「泉」を探しています。
その泉は、カトリック信徒さんが多い長崎北部、聖フランシスコ病院近くの北西斜面に面している、との情報から探索しておりましたが完全なる調査不足。ひと山間違ってしまい見つけられず。
マムシの出現を恐れながらの下山。。。となりました。
次の昼休みにリベンジです。


We had a short trip during lunch break the other day.

The destination was a mysterious place that has fountain and statue of Maria where is located in north side of Nagasaki.

One of our staff came across another fountain place a week ago and he told us about it.
Then we found out that there are few more places that look like what he saw.
(We also found out that original one is located near the border of France and Spain.
Then a priest in Nagasaki imitated and made places that look like the original one.)

We decided to go to the place.
Only few people know about the place so we didn't have much information.
We climbed up the mountain but couldn't find it.
That was a wrong mountain. 
We were afraid that a snake shows up while climbing down.

We will give it a try again someday.

旧オランダ村

こんにちは！屋久島で一年分くらい雨を浴びたカレー革命です。

先日、4月頃滞在したオランダのご夫婦からポストカードと新聞記事が届きました。
その方は新聞記者だったらしく届いた記事の中には、案内した旧オランダ村（現西彼総合支所）で満面の笑みを浮かべる夫婦の姿があるじゃあ～りませんか。
何でもそのオランダ村のモデルになった街が夫婦の故郷(Hoorn)だったみたいで、尚且つ新聞記者なので記事にしてしまったという訳なのです。
ハウステンボスは商業的で好きじゃなかったらしく、旧オランダ村を案内した時はこんな所に行きたがるなんてマニアックな人達だなぁと思っていましたが、なるほどそういう事だったんですね。
自分が記者である事も告げずに去り、記事が出来上がってから送る。粋です。

ミニ鯉のぼりで楽しそうにはしゃぐ奥さんの姿も印象的でした。

Hi, I'm Sou.
We got postcards and a news paper from our guests who stayed here in April.
They are couple and one of them is a news reporter.
What I saw in the news paper was the couple smiling in the previous Holland village where I told them how to go.
The village went bankrupt few years ago and is already abandoned. 
Almost nobody want to go.
When I showed them how to go there, I was like "Why do they want to go to such a place?"
It turned out holland village was modeled after their city called "Hoorn"
Besides he is a reporter, it was a good source of his article.
He didn't tell me he was a reporter so I was surprised when I saw this article.
I like the way he left without saying he would make an article about it.

If you are from Hoorn, maybe it's worth going? Umm,, I can't guarantee.