2019年10月27日 星期日

搭 243 號公車 → 亞洲大學

#2019-1027

住家附近,最近新增了 243 號公車的站牌,叫做「明台中學(大同路)」。行使此路線的 243 號公車,全是電力驅動,不吃汽油,車子靠近你時,靜悄悄的,沒有什麼噪音。走路或等車的你我,可要更留意才行!

今天下午帶兩個小孫子搭 243 號公車,是祖孫頭一次搭 243 號。我們前往「亞大」玩兩個鐘頭左右,時間有限,但印象特別深刻。----- 途中,在公車上.巧遇一位來自盧安達的青年,在亞大就讀的,我與他暢談一路,小孫子也主動用英語對他說「哈囉」呢!


















































2019年10月23日 星期三

Hiking on a Mountain Path

#2019-1023

This afternoon we hiked on a road that we hadn't walked along for years. Everything we saw on our way to and from the small temple of the Earth God (尖後土地公廟) on top of the mountain was so interesting to us. We could recall quite a few memories -- you know, memories of those walks on this mountain path had faded away, but now they came back to us one after the other, suddenly.

Besides old memories, we found something new. For instance, when walking up on the steep slope to the Temple of the Camphor Tree God (霧峰樟公廟), we passed by some retaining walls (擋土牆) on which poems written by Lin Chaosong (林朝崧 1875-1915) were exhibited. In the past -- I mean, about 10 years ago, this section of the road had already been called 霧峰詩路 (= the road of poetry in Wufeng). At that time, the poems displayed on these retaining walls were in colloquial Taiwanese, but now what you can see here are in the traditional style instead. And in addition to poetry, you can find lovely pictures painted on other retaining walls (See top right).