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Beware of Wild Boars

Silentjim — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:37:11 +0000

Not far from where we live is a small “mountain” called Rokko Mountain (or Rokko San in Japanese). It’s a very pretty mountain home to lots of wild animals including Wild Boars.
(Our local newletter recently had a guide on what to do if you come across wild monkeys too).

Around our city, especially near the mountain area you can see signs for “Danger – Wild Boars”.
Here’s a picture of a cute wild boarlet (???) we saw while hiking in the mountain last year.

Wild Boar

The other day a leaflet came through our door for windows and doors, and in the bottom corner was an advert for “Pet Doors” (cat-flaps as we generally call them in England). But this isn’t just any old catflap (for ￥18,000 £135!), oh no, this one keeps out Wild Boars!

Boar Protector

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Hiking? On a Monday?

Silentjim — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:55:38 +0000

The other week we went hiking! This is not something I would usually do, due to it being tiring, and, well tiring. But hiking we did. (We had a bank holiday monday so what else are you going to do?)

We walked for about an hour from our house up hill in the direction of Rokko Mountain, through the expensive neighbourhood with garages bigger than our apartment, and I was just about to ask Aki if we were near the end yet, when she told me we were nearly at the beginning!
Doh!

Then we hit the mountain proper. It was proper steep with like rock steps and stuff, and at one point there was a chain you had to hold on to to pull yourself up the really steep bit.

I felt I was going to pass out and die on at least 5 occasion – excessive exercise is not something I’ve chosen to do since…um…anyway…on we trekked.

However it was worth it, as the of Ashiya and the surrounding area was gorgeous.

View of Ashiya

(Photo taken with my phone so not the best).

Our apartment is in front of those big lego looking buildings in the background).

Also we came very close to wild boar!

Baby Wild Boar

Which were very cute.

After about an hour or so from “the beginning” we got to the top, had lunch, (an onigiri – rice ball filled with fish and wrapped in seaweed) and headed down the other way to the beer vending machine at the bottom and the haagen daz shop

After my heartbeat and breathing returned to some level of normality I decided it was quite fun, and we’re off to a different part of the mountain tomorrow for some more…

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Pottery Class in Tamba

Silentjim — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:37:32 +0000

Beautiful Day in Tamba

The other week, the missus and I drove up into Rokko Mountains, the mountains nearest to us, to a little place called Tamba, about 2 hours away, which is famous for it`s pottery.

We had a nice lunch (I had chicken karaage – deep fried chicken pieces, and she had soba), then we attempted to make some nice cups and pots. Great fun, if a little tricky. You get a big wadge of clay, and a table wheel thing (technical term I believe), and off you go.
A very nice man was giving us pointers (in Japanese, so I only got about half of it, but I did ok), and we ended up with some “interesting” pots. Well, my girlfriends were pretty good, she`s done it before, mine left a lot to be desired.

Pottery Town, Tamba

Tofu

Our Pots

My pots are the middle two, not so smooth, but have that natural, rough feel, eh.

The place will fire them, and paint them, so we go back in a couple of weeks to pick them up! Lets hope they don`t leak.

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