千曲市は杏生産の日本一だそうです。親戚の庭の木で杏狩りに誘われて、今日は子供たちを連れてやってみました。２週間前の雹で傷は大分あったが、見た目だけが悪いで味が美味しいです。二つの種類があって、小さい方は多少すっぱいのでその尼すっぱさが美味しい！いっぱい採れましたので週末のお客さんに「ご自由にどうぞ」でフロントに置きました。県外からのお客さんは特に喜んでいただきました。

Chikuma City is supposedly the number one producer of apricots in Japan. One of our relatives invited us to go over to their garden and pick apricots in their trees. So today I took the kids and we had fun picking the bright orangish-yellow fruit. A lot of them had damage from the hail storm two weeks ago, but the appearance didn't affect the taste. There were two different varieties of apricots, and the smaller ones had a delicious tart kick to them.
We picked a whole bunch of apricots. We brought them back to Kamesei and put some out on the front desk for the weekend guests to enjoy.

信州戸倉上山田温泉の亀清旅館のHPはこちらClick here for the website of Kamesei Ryokan in Nagano.