Happy Days.
No doubt due helped by the fact that I am now off work,but I have been feeling so content in the last few days.We live in Amakusa, in a little town of 8,000 odd people .Our nearest big cities are either Kumamoto or Nagasaki ...Kumamoto is a 2 and a half hour car ride away.Nagasaki is closer as we only have a 70 minute ferry journey from here then a 20 minute bus/car ride.But basically we live in the sticks.There is a small city 20 minutes away with a shopping mall,McD,KFC and quite a few eating places and other shops.No Starbucks though...yet;) We have what we need and there are many other things that we would like to have nearby but don't.Oh,and we have a cracking paediatrician in the local hospital...he is one of the top paediatricians in the prefecture if not No 1....Living and working here....In our town of 8,000.We don't ask why.And worship him.
So,we have the basics and a bit more .Until it comes to summer.Indeed,we live on the coast.So we have the BEACH! Not the best beaches in the world but my goodness,it is the best feeling to wake up on a beautiful Sunday morning in this heat and think,well,let's go to the beach then.Which is what we did yesterday.Within a few minutes we were all decked out in our beach gear,sunscreen on and even the dog all revved up to go.Off we went to one of our local hang outs.Not a person to be seen as every one tends to go to the town beach which has a shower and loo facilities.We aren't fussy.Pitched our beach umbrella and hit the water.It was bliss.Beautiful blue sea,gorgeous sky,sandy beach and all ours.The dog was happy(as long as were out of the water...she is a shiba mix and they just don't do the water thing),Annie was in 7th heaven digging away making sandcastles and cakes for the dog(??),Kenichi was happy to wander up and down the beach and occasionally go for a swim and I was SO happy to bob around in the water feeling as light as a feather and lovely and cool and then sit on the beach and read a bit.We got home and all had a bath and then Annie had her tea and was conked out on the sofa by 5.30pm and slept through until 6am.Which left Kenichi and me to have a meal alone and to have some adult talk.We were both in bed by 8am and read until we dozed off.
This is what we tend to do during the summer months.We spend at least one day each weekend at the beach,sometimes two.And at home we have a big paddling pool and have a BBQ and do fireworks as we did on Saturday with Annie's boyfriend,Yuichiro.After 11 years of living here,I still feel that we are living a beach resort life for 6 months of the year.
Doesn't take much for me to feel content after all.
PS The above video was actually taken back in March.But it is the same beach that we went to yesterday you see.
posted by marianne at
9:14 am
6 Comments:
Sounds like the perfect weekends to me! Beach and BBQ, can`t get much better than that. Do you get waves at your beach? We also spent the day at the beach yesterday. It was fantastic to get out of the busy city and enjoy the water!
TM,I agree that it can't get much better;)We do get waves and surfers so have to be careful with Annie when we swim on that beach.But she lurves getting splashed.
Must have been wonderful for you all to hit the beach yesterday and escape the honking and all.How do beaches there compare to those in Okinawa?
oh, i wanna visit!! if i knew where you lived, the kids and i would probably be giving you guys a surprise visit one of these days!! lol
i want to add you to my blog roll, if that's ok. :D
illahee,come visit:) We live in a town called Reihoku.Just ask for us and someone will show you the house.Yep,the town is that small;)
And yes,of course you can blog roll me.One day I will get round to working out how to do my own...watch this space!
Right on Marianne,I agree with what you said a million times over! : ) Same for us, lot's of summer BBQ's at home, paddling pool, the simple things in life like that...really make me content too, so I hear ya completely.: ) We also live near the beach here in Japan, but we should go more then we do though (ours isn't a fancy beach either, lol, your beach is probably way nicer then ours, ha ha ha serious).Anyway, I really can really relate to what you said and found myself shaking my head in agreement.
And I love that you live in the country-side and enjoy it, ha ha ha. I am a fellow "living in the sticks girl" myself. Ha ha ha. Our town is only 5 thousand people though (yikes). It's really awesome living in a small town like this though, huh? We love it. Good place to raise a family. : )
PS, awesome to see Annie in the video! She has grown up so much! Really stretched out! Gotten tall! : ) She will be growing up a total beach girl. That is so cool!
Hey M! So far I`ve only really been to "resort-type" beaches and they are really fancy schmancy and amazing (and fun) but more organized...if that makes sense. There are some like that in Okinawa too but not on the same scale. We would often just pull over at the side of the road and find a quaint, beautiful beach in Okinawa. We haven`t found that here....YET.
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