11/22〜24のクラウン・ライブと講座の集客に全力を注いでいます。皆様、是非、クラウンライブにお越しください。チケットはまだございます。
このイベントを多くの方に知っていただくには、やはりメディアの力を借りたいと思い、今日は彦根の新聞社に資料を持っていくことにしました。ところが、このところ股関節の調子が悪く彦根駅から新聞社までの歩行に自信がありません。そこで思い切って彦根芹川駅まで自転車を電車に乗せて、そこから目的地まで向かうことにしました。
近江鉄道はサイクルトレインと言って通常の乗車券で自転車持ち込みOKです。時々、自転車と一緒に電車に乗り込んでくる人を見かけますが、まさか自分がそれをするとは！
いつもの駐輪所に自転車を停めずに、今日はそのまま電車の中へ。ハラハラドキドキ。発車前に車掌さんに行き先を確認し（高宮駅乗換だとホームを渡るので自転車は無理）、今度は車掌さんから降りる駅を聞かれ（彦根芹川駅はホームからスロープがあるので自転車で降車可）で一安心。ベルがなってガチャコン電車が出発。何というワクワク感！電車に自転車と一緒に乗り込むなんて！！
無事に新聞社に資料を届けて、また同じ駅からガチャコンに乗り込むと、車内はハロウィン仕様に飾りつけされていて、乗り込んできた保育園児がはしゃいでいました。私も園児たちと同じ気分で嬉しい一日でした。
I am currently putting so much effort to get participants to the Clown Live and Clown Talk between Nov. 22nd and 24th. Please come to these events by all means. We hold tickets now.
In order to get more people for the events, I wanted the newspaper company to write about the events in their paper beforehand, so I decided to bring the materials of the clown event to the paper office in Hikone. However, I have a problem walking from Hikone station to the office on foot, because my joints are getting worse and it's too hard to take a walk for that distance. Then I found the way to bring my bicycle to the station in Hikone by local train.
On our local train line, they allow us to bring bicycles with a regular ticket. In fact, I saw several times that a passenger was taking the train with his bike but I've never thought about doing so myself.
Usually I park my bike at the bicycle parking lot in Taga Station and get on the train, but today, I got on the train with my bike. I was so excited to do so. What a wonderful experience it was! I got off the train at the station which had a slope for the bike to get out from the platform.
I rode my bike from there and went to the newspaper office to bring the material for the event and got back to the same station again.
There was a Halloween decoration inside the train and a group of preschool kids who got into the train at the next station were very much excited. I had the same feeling as them. It was a very pleasant day.
