30.4.09

Shooting Dog

kankouchi de syashin wo torutameni kamera wo motte irunzyanai,
yoihisyatai ga arukara syatta-wo kirunda.

Dear ALL

Hell, this is Yuji from Plovidiv at Blugaria.

I spend in my time with a family at Plovidiv in thses two days.
Yesterday, I went to a cycling to a mountain with an Bulugaria army.
He could not speak English, but he is brave.

Bulgaria is a beautiful moutanious country. It looks like Japan.

By the way, as I said I could not solve the problem for dogs.
I am going to buy a ultrasound to keep myself safe.

Actually, the night when I use my tent dogs barked to me in all night. And I heard that Rumania is a lot of dogs all through the country. I need to buy it as soon as possible.
And also I heard that the best solution is that I will try to be bravely.
I will try my best not to eat from dogs!! And, tell me if you have a good solution.

See you soon,

Yuji

27.4.09

Haskovo in Bulgaria

Konnichiwa toruko wo nuke burugaria ni kimashita.
Nihonyori kionga hikuku asayuu ha hiekomimasu.
Eigo wo hanaseruhito ga sukunakute modokashiidesu.
Bijinna onnanoko ga oidesu.

Dear ALL

Hello!
I am Haskovo in Bulugaria, where is 100km from Edirne in Turkey.
I just experienced first border on a road.

My bicycle meter shows 0ver 430. This is the distance from Istanbul. And these three days I am heading over 100km. Before this trip I was trying to listening to English by radio, but there was no English service on it. So, I decided to listing to English music. Actually, I have a CD player because it is work on batteries (it can reuse over times). The CD , you know , the Beatles "1", which I bought in England three years ago. I listened it 10 times a day or more.

And I had a one dengerous experience.

When I ride on the road, 4 dogs came and barked to me.
I could not move at that time, because they approached me with their sharp eyes.
Suddenly, a car came and a man get out of the car. He barked to dogs insted.
And they run away.

I was close to death.

Today I am going to stay at tent.
I hope I will find any good place where there is no dogs.

Good Night for all!!

Yuji

23.4.09

Istanbul

Hello, every one!!



Fırstly, I am sorry to late for update of my dıary.

And from now on I am goıng to wrıte thıs dıary ın Englısh.

Please gıve me an attentıon wıth dıctıonary. I am tryıng to tell easıly , what's more, I don't know dıffıcult expressıon!!!



The journey has started on Aprıl. 22nd vıa Heathrow to Istanbul.

Now, I am stayıng wıth my frıend house who meet fırstly wıth ınternet. I am a lıttle bıt tıred because of my lack of sleepıng and heavey luggedge.



Today I woak up at Istanbul aırport and make up my bıcycle for 3 hours and to bıke about 30km to the Bospolus(bosuporasu) . Here ıs very old cıty and both ıslamıc and European culture mıxed up. It ıs dıffıcult for me to dıfıne Turkısh.



In a plaın, I thought about that I am goıng to Aısan sıde of Istanbul and Toroı, then to Bulugarıa.



Hıstory and Islamıc culture makes me feel better!!



See you later.



Kenya

18.4.09

Brainstorming


What is left when I brainstorming of Czech except for "Prague Spring"?

Suddenly, I thought that. I examined the basic information of 13 countries, which I am going to.
But, I haven't remenber those information like population, area, capital and so on because it was too much. More correctly, I was not interested in those information. 

チェコのブレインストーミングをしたら、「プラハの春」以外に何が残るだろうか。

ふと、そんな不安にとらわれた。私が旅する13カ国については基本情報くらいは調べたのだが、何しろ情報が多すぎて頭に入ってこない。というか、興味のある情報が少なくて記憶に残らないと言った方が正確かもしれない。

That's why, I went to school library to get some information about it. "The way to work on earth"(Chikyu no arukikata), describs how to travel each coutries like "lonely planet". What I wanted to get was not that kind of infomation. I wanted to know about some attraction of each countries. Recently, there is a good book series to understand each countrie's condition in detail titled "O (number) chapters to understand O (countrie's name)", which describes like education, medicine, society,  geography and so on. But this series about 300 pages! I don't have enough time to read 13 countries and 300 pages !! if so, I'll late for my fright. The best way to understand is to read only I am interested! ! I borrowed 5 countries, Czech&Slovakia, Austria, Netherlands, and Rumania.

そんなわけで大学の図書館へ情報を仕入れに行った。地球の歩き方は旅情報だが、最近は国情報を知るのに「○○を知るために○章」といった具合の本をよく見かける。内容はかなり充実しており、すべてはとても読み切れない。本当は時間があればすべて読みたいのだが、自分の興味のわくものを探して4冊借りた。チェコ・スロバキア、ウィーン・オーストリア、オランダ、ルーマニアの計5カ国である。

After that, I went to big book store before I was going home, and I bought world maps and material data of world history, that would be last chance to put in my brain well.
Whenever I study, I couldn't do it well in just before a limit. I know this was not a good habit. But a history repeat over and over again.

帰りがけに神保町の三省堂書店によって、地図帳と歴史の資料集も購入した。
直前にならないとやらないという悪い癖が出たが、最後の悪あがきでいつも乗り越えてきたようなものである。アンテナを広げて旅に出たい。

Before I am going home, I decided to do it well, but it's easy to say that!!
I drunk a beer, and watching TV, that was the result of my golden time!!
Tomorrow, or today, I am going to spend my time to prepare for my trip. I hope that I'll spend  my time not only for body but also for brain!!

See you again!!

と、意気込んだものの家に帰るとビールを飲んでなんだか眠くなってきた。また、明日にしよう♪
明日は自転車を段ボールに入れて、旅行の準備に一日費やします!

それでは、また!

Kenya



17.4.09

British Airways (BA)

On April 22nd, I am going to go to UK at 11:00am.
This is the first time to use the British Airways. When I take on the bicycle to airplain, I need to imform before that. Once, I called at BA to comfirm whether I can ride on it or not. At then a party told me that [You can ride on your bicycle but if so, you need to tell us before that]
That's why I called to the British Airways in the afternoon.

4月22日の朝11時私はイギリスに向けて出発する。ブリティッシュエアウェイズを使うのは初めてなのである。自転車を飛行機に乗せるには、事前に航空会社に知らせることが決まっていた。以前、私が飛行機を自転車に乗せられるかどうかで航空会社に電話したときにそう言われたのだった。その時は、「自転車を乗せるのは可能だけど、乗せることが決まったら必ず連絡頂戴ね」と航空会社の人に言われた。そういうわけで、今日はその旨を伝える電話をしたのである。

I:[May I ride on my bicycle to plain if it's nomal size?]
BA:[Of course, you can ride on it. But you should get it into bicycle bag.]
I:[How about cardbord if it is nomal size ?]
BA:[We have no service for cardbord. If you can't get into bag, we won't take it to UK.]
I:[So what?? This is the only way to take it to UK. Please, please!!]
BA:[No, you can't. This is our company's rule. You can't break it.]
I:[You don't understand how to bring a bicycle to ariplain nomally, do you? Can you insure of it?(if not to cardbord, the possibility of breaking is higher)]
BA:[We can't take it. We have no insurence service.]
I:[OK. I'll call you later.]

私:「規定内のサイズの自転車は飛行機に乗せられますよね?」
BA:「大丈夫ですよ。ですが、きちんと自転車用のバッグに入れていただく必要があります」
私:「段ボールではどうでしょうか?」
BA:「段ボールでは乗せることができません。バッグに入れないと運べないのです」
私:「うん??段ボールに入れるしか方法がないのです。なんとかお願いできませんか?」
BA:「ダメですね。会社の規定で決まっています。破ることはできません。」
私:「通常、自転車をどうやって飛行機に乗せるかおわかりでないようですね。飛行機に乗せている最中に壊れたら保証してくれるのですか(段ボールに入れないと壊れる可能性が高い)」
BA:「バッグに入れていただくことになっています。保障はご自身で入っていただくほかございません。」
私:「わかりました。また、電話します。」

After that I mesured the cardbord size certainly and then called again.

その後、再びサイズを測り直し電話をしたのである。

BA:[Hello.(another guy)]
I:[I called few minutes ago, and I want to comfirm whether I can bring my bicycle in the cardbord to the plain. Can I do that, if it is ruled size?]
BA:[Yes, you can use cardboard, if it's in the ruled size.]
I:[(You are not the same which you said before!!) OK.]
BA:[But tell us actual size and weight of your bicycle by the next monday, right? ]
I:[OK, I'll call you anagin! ]

BA:「もしもし(おっ、違う人だ!)」
私:「さっき電話したのですが、段ボールに自転車を入れて飛行機に乗せることはできますか。」
BA:「規定サイズ内でしたら大丈夫ですよ。」
私:「(さっきと違うではないか!)わかりました」
BA:「正確な大きさとサイズを月曜日までに教えてください、よろしいですか?」
私:「わかりました。月曜日に電話します」

There are not so much people to take it into airplain, I think.
I'll never forget to call them again, that is the best way to go.

自転車を飛行機に乗せる人は多くない。
月曜日に電話するのを忘れないことが、順調なフライトを楽しむために最善の方法だと確信している。

Kenya

16.4.09

Bicycle to Airplain

Do you know how I can bring my bicycle to Europe?
It is a little bit hard.
Firstly, I am going to go to bicycle shop to get cardboard, which used when a bicycle bring to a shop from maker. Secondly, I break my bicycle to put in. It take about 30min. at least. After I packed it, it will bring airport and to check size and wight.If these step passed I can stay seat in peace.

Today, I finished just step one. I went to bicycle shop near Ueno station called Y' road.
http://www.ysroad.net/

This shop really good items and staffs. Recently, I go there two or three times a week to get some infomation and good advice to Grate Journey. If you want to buy Cross or MTB, why don't you go there!!

Kenya

自転車をどうやって飛行機に乗せるか、知っていますか?
これは結構大変なんですよ、実は。
まず、自転車屋に行って自転車がメーカーから送られてくる際に梱包されている段ボールを手に入れます。そして、自転車を分解してこの段ボールに入れます。これはどんなに早くても今の私の技術では30分はかかってしまいます。そして、空港まで運んでサイズと重さのチェックを受けてようやく飛行機に安心して乗ることができるわけです。

今日はこの第一段階が終わりました。つまり、自転車屋さんから段ボールを手に入れたのです。上野にあるY'roadという自転車屋さんです。http://www.ysroad.net/

品揃えが豊富で、良いスタッフが多いです。週に2,3回くらい情報収集や買い物に出かけています。MTB(マウンテンバイク)やクロスバイクなどが欲しかったら行ってみてはいかがでしょうか!

ケニア

15.4.09

Great Journey to Europe

How do you do? Hi, I am Kenya.

From April 22nd, I am going to go to Europe about 3 months by bicycle.
After that, I am going to work at UK for several months.Then, I am going to go to Africa. I haven't decided after all, but I thnik a positive fureture is waiting for me as long as I am student and smiling!!

By the way, do you know what does it mean the title of 'Great Journey '? It was named by a Grate Japanese adventurer Yoshiharu Sekino, who traveled from Africa to the world throuth human footprint. When he traveled, he used a bicycle which named Great Journey producted by GIANT. And I also use the same bicycle to Europe! I feel like the name bring me a Grate Journey!! Don't you think so?

From now on, I am going to update prepareing for my trip!!
I am happy, if you give me some good advice!

Thank you.

Kenya


はじめまして、ケニアです。
今月の22日から、ヨーロッパへ自転車旅行に出かけます。
予定では3ヵ月くらいヨーロッパを周遊し、その後イギリスで働きます。
その後、再び自転車に跨りアフリカ大陸に行こうと考えています。
その先のことは未定ですが、学生最高☆★
と、いうことで、なるようになるでしょう!

旅行に向けて取り組んでいるとこをどんどん書いていきます。

さて、このグレートジャーニー(Great Journey)という言葉ですが、もともと冒険家の関野吉晴さんが人類の起源であるアフリカから世界へ旅行した際に名づけた名前です。道中、彼が乗っていた自転車がグレートジャーニーと言うのです。そして、私も彼が乗っていたGIANT(自転車メーカー)のグレートジャーニーに乗っています。素敵な旅ができそうな名前ですね!ということで気に入って使っています。

みなさん、どうぞよろしくお願いします。

ケニア