The slogan of the event
ハッピー国際女性デー！母がミモザを買って来た以外に特にIWDらしい事はしていませんが、再度さよなら原発集会の、今度は春の回に参加しました。実際に春の回という位置づけだったのかどうかは分かりませんし、今日は春というにはかなり寒かったですが、まぁとりあえず。
過去のブログ記事「さよなら原発全国集会 Spring」参照
今回はお馴染みの友人Aと一緒に参加しました。彼女は以前からこの分野に興味を持っており、去年も再生可能エネルギー事業者のおすすめがないか聞かれ（みんな電力を紹介しました）、原発反対デモにも参加したいと言っていましたが、彼女が実際にデモに参加するのは今回が初めてでした。
スケジュール的には忙しかったし、天気もあまり良くなくかなり寒かったし、花粉はそこらじゅうに飛んでいましたが、参加して良かったです。私も参加したことで彼女の背中を押すことになったし、私にとっても彼女と一緒の方が楽しいので。
と言いつつ、本日の「あったずもな」
2月、京都経由で島根旅行に行って来ました。凄腕占い師のおすすめで、彼のアドバイスは一言で言えば、「美味しいものを食べて、温泉旅行に行きなさい」というものだった・・・。何ちゅーアドバイス。そんなアドバイスならもちろん聞きます！その中でも山陰地方が一番のおすすめでした。
大雪で特急列車が何本も運休になり、辿り着くのは大変でしたが、島根はとても良いところでした・・・原発があることを除けば。高額療養費制度の自己負担上限額の引き上げに反対する県知事や県議を選んだ島根県民はきっと賢いと思うので、今度は原発を止めるように動いて欲しいと思います。
また冬以外の季節にぜひ訪れたいです。(交通の便があまり良いとは言えず・・・。）
The Shimane Castle
Happy International Women’s Day! I did nothing for this day, except for appreciating mimosa my mother bought, but I did join a protest against nuclear power plants again. I’m not sure if it was actually a Spring session or not, and today was quite cold as a Spring day, but anyway….
Link to my past blog post “Sayonara Nukes 2024 Autumn”
This time with a regular friend of mine, A. She had been interested in this area for quite some time. She had asked for my recommendation on renewable energy provider last year (so I introduced Minden), and had said she had been interested in joining protests against nuclear power plants, but it was her first time actually joining a protest.
Although my schedule has been tight, weather was not very good, was quite cold, and pollen was everywhere, I am glad that I joined, as my joining it resulted in pushing her back, and it was funner with her for me as well.
Having said that, today’s ‘time for that’
In February, I went to a trip to Shimane, via Kyoto. It was a recommendation by a famous fortuneteller. His advice was in short, ‘have nice meals and go on trips to hot spring.’ What an advice. I will definitely take that! And Sanin area was the most recommended.
It was hard getting there, as it was heavily snowing and many limited express trains were cancelled, but Shimane was such a lovely place… except for that there are nuclear power plants there. I think people in Shimane are clever, as they chose the prefectural governor and the prefectural assembly members, who speak up against the plan to raise the ceiling on out-of-pocket expenses for high-cost medical care. So I hope they will also work together to stop those nuclear power plants.
Would love to visit this place again, though it must be other seasons than Winter. (Transport cannot said to be very convenient.)