After a long time, we decided to finally drive to Karatsu again. We always use to go there for relaxing, having great food and also for mushroom-hunting. Karatsu is famous for it's 5km long pine-tree grove at the coast called Nijinomatsubara (虹ノ松原), which was originally planted by the local Shogun to protect the village from typhoons. I love to walk there... some of the trees look like if they were shaped by magic.
Actually, we hoped to find the first "Akamomitake" (アカモミタケ) "lactarius laeticolorus" or even "Hatsutake" (ハツタケ) "lactarius hatsudake", but instead we found masses of Amitake (アミタケ) "Suillus bovinus". We will have them with miso-soup tonight.
After our little "hunt", we went to our all time favorite restaurant there in the "Nijinomatsubara hotel" and had a delicious course... salad with cheese and smoked salami,
Duck soup fondue...
smoked duck with orange marinade, grilled eggplant and balsamico...
Tuna/salmon tartare with caviar...
salty egg pudding...
Spring-flounder...
Sushi and pumpkin soup...
Fig cooked in Redwine and a good, strong coffee...
Excellent service, great food with view on the beach and on the islands and less than 20 Euros per person. Having such a great course always makes me feel like I was on a long vacation.
Later, we took a walk on the beach... the weather was dark, but warm... we gathered some squid-bones and shells for our birds.
And the kids enjoyed to play a little...
Now I play with my "Muri-muu" (Muri means "impossible" and I chose that name, because of his temper sometimes^^), who is happy that we are back. We just were away for 4 hours, but it was soooo much fun and felt like a week.
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