My trusty bicycle, which comes everywhere with me these days
As you will know if you have been reading this blog lately, I recently spent a couple of weeks studying at Kawashima Textile School. This meant a daily routine of cycling to the station, taking a sweet little train north out of the city, then walking through the quiet streets of Ichihara to school. Despite the early hour, the journey itself was a lovely part of the day, and I thought I would share it with you…
Past lovely little coffee shop ‘Amuca’
Greeting other early birds
Through this lovely temple complex
Past sweet houses
Along the riverbank
Calling out ‘Ohio gozaimasu’ (‘good morning’) to joggers…
…and to musicians in training who prefer the riverside to their paper-thin walled apartments
To the ingenius bike park at Demachiyangi Station (I think they could do with one of these in cities like Oxford!)
Just in time for my train
This rural station at Ichihara is my stop
Past freshly-planted paddy fields
And to school, just before the bell rings (yes there is a school bell!)
I change into my slippers(!) and then head off to class…
More posts from school here: Preparing and dyeing the thread / Preparing giant bobbins / Preparing the warp
