【5/3 くららフェスティバル2025】

GWのスタートダッシュ💪💨

5月3日憲法記念日に、旧鞍岡中学校”くらおかくらら”にて、「くららフェスティバル2025」が開催されました🥳

当日はこれ以上ないほどの晴天☀️✨

会場にはたくさんの飲食系出店や占い・リラクゼーション・雑貨・フリーマーケットなどが並び、来場者も約300人ほどと、大変賑わった1日となりました🤗🌟

かなり暖かい日だったので、かき氷が大人気でした🍧💕（大人はお酒かな🍺？）

中庭では、Nani.loa HULA studioの皆さんによるフラダンスの披露もありました🌺スペシャルゲスト、鞍岡小学校の教頭先生の熱唱も披露され、こちらも大変盛り上がりました😆🔥

お楽しみ抽選会では豪華賞品が多数当選し、皆さんの笑顔が溢れていました☺️✨

昨年から開催された新しいお祭りですが、早くも地元内外に浸透し愛されるお祭りになっている「くららフェスティバル」👏💡

すでに来年の開催が楽しみですね💕

2025/4/19〜21
2泊3日で石垣島の白保へ1人旅。
宿の近くに可愛いカフェ発見♡
赤や黄色の花が青空に映える。

2日目はフェリーで黒島へ。
牛にじっと見つめられ、
私は悪い人間じゃないよ、と
テレパシーを送る。

今日も白保海岸が綺麗なのは、
月1ビーチクリーンのおかげ。
キラキラと生命力に溢れているね。

海も空も緑も、温かくて優しい人達と
一緒に、ずっとずっと大事にしたい。

そんなことを考えていたら、
帰る頃には大阪が恋しかったよ。

出会って関わってくれた皆さま、
ありがとうございました。

またいつか、碧い海を見に行きたいな。

お祭りの屋台でかき氷！！
シロップ好きなのかけ放題！！どれをかけようかな。。。

〝川越 これがかき氷〟
天然氷のかき氷のため、口の中ですーっと溶けて、頭がキーンってならないため、今の季節でも全く寒くならなかったです‼️

Some photos of our trip to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture over the 3 day weekend a couple weeks back.

On the way to Sawara we stopped at Chiba Station and had lunch at a place called Common Café. I order a burger not expecting a lot, but it was the best burger I've had in a long time actually.

We arrived a bit late in Sawara and were kind of tired so we decided to just go to the hotel, shower and relax for a bit and then have dinner.
We had a reservation at a French restaurant called Mougins and it ended up being a really great experience.

After eating dinner we were headed back to the hotel and we heard some hayashi and cheering in the distance and we decided to check out what was happening. We found a dashi parading through the streets and they were stopping at different places to pick up alcohol lol. Apparently they'd been doing it every Sunday, I think since corona started.
It was pretty cool to see though.

The next day we went to check out the Sawara Historical District and after reaching our destination we decided to take a break at a cafe. We ordered a shaved ice and some sort of soda. They were both really delicious, especially the shaved ice. It was some sort of flavor using tea from Kyoto and milk. I forget what it was called exactly though.

We also stopped by the former residence of Inoh Tadataka, the famous Japanese cartographer.
It was quite interesting seeing where he lived.
After visiting his residence, we to the nearby museum and learned about his life and everything he did.

I was pretty blown away by how incredible he actually was. I was a bit surprised that I hadn't learned much about him when I was studying the history of Japan, but after visiting the museum I'm convinced he was truly a genius.

Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures inside of the museum, but seeing all of the tools that he used to draw maps and learning how they worked was really interesting.
On top of that, the maps he drew were unbelievably accurate.
I think it mentioned somewhere that his maps were used until the 1900's, despite being drawn several hundred years prior.
His cartography was only one of the endeavors he pursued as well. There were also some documents that explained how he helped his town get through the famine, and also documents detailing how he dealt with local lords imposing taxes on his town.

Besides the museum, we also took a boat ride through the canal that ran through the historical district.
The canal was quite nice, and you could see the historical buildings that lined the sides of it while going through it.
We had to lower the cover on the boat for several bridges as the water level was quite high due to the recent rains, but that just made the experience even more memorable.

The tour guide on the boat mentioned how when the canal was used back in the Edo period, it was incredibly busy and boats would have been bumping into each other constantly while passing through.

During the boat ride through the canal I noticed some interesting statues on various lanterns and decided to check them out. They all turned out to be interesting and unique.

We ended our trip by having a late lunch near the historical district.
We had planned to take a train back to Tokyo but missed it by a few minutes.
Fortunately, a bus arrived at the perfect time and so we rode that back to Tokyo. It was much better than the crowded trains.

Overall it was a really good day-trip style excursion and I definitely recommend it!
Managed to find 2 poke lids too!

これは群馬にある｢日本一｣というかき氷屋さんの、いちごのかき氷です。
氷は秩父の天然氷を使っていて、日光の天然氷にも変更ができます。また、いちごのシロップは手作りで作られていて酸味と甘みのバランスがよく、店名にもあるように暑い夏には1番じゃないかと思います。

かき氷は日本の夏にはかかせないものと思いますし、今では日本全国に様々なかき氷があって、より身近な存在になったのではないでしょうか。

そんなかき氷を、全体ではなくあえて美味しそうな部分に絞って撮りました。

夏といえば誕生日。

夏を感じる食べ物といえば🍧🍉

青森県八戸市小中野にある
「田村氷販売店」さんで食べた
レモンかき氷
タワーみたいに盛っていましたが、粉雪のようにふんわり感があって美味しかったです。

期間限定のかき氷ですが、コンデンスミルクはカケ放題！
また来年も味わえたらいいなぁと思っています！