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Weekend at Ocean 6

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Once we got back home from our vacation in Yamaguchi we repacked our bags and went with Sachi-san and her two dogs to Ocean 6. We arrived late in the evening welcomed by a repellant smell from the fridge. Turned out the company that maintains the property had turned off the electricity a couple of weeks or so before and that does not make a good combination with food and heat. We had an hour or two of cleaning out the fridge before we could exhaustedly go to bed.

On Saturday morning we found out that not only the fridge get impacted without electricity. The pool too get impacted. It was green. So we had to pump out all the water and then scrub from top to bottom. A day’s worth of work. Luckily the weather was nice but not hot so we could do without the pool.

On Sunday we had an video chat with Toku-san from Bali and he pointed out that we should probably clean the pool filter too. So that was how we spent Sunday. Cleaning the pool filter. And once that was done it turned out the valve in the pool umping system had to be replaced so we continued doing that until later Sunday evening.

Just past 11 pm we were back in Naka-Meguro and just fell into bed 🙂

Ocean 6

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This weekend we visited Ocean 6 again. We did much of the same thing we did the last time, which was doing as little as possible 🙂 The weather was cloudy but that was actually quite nice as the temperature quite comfortable, and I did not burn up this time even though I slept in the hammock.



To tell the truth, I was actually not that lazy. I helped out cutting some bamboo and mowing the lawn, at least part of it. In fact I cut bamboo until my skin broke on one of the fingers. I nice little flesh wound the size of a one yen coin. I also helped out painting in one of the 6 apartments. I have a painting specialty compared with many Japanese people, I can paint high up on walls without ladders 😉

When I was not working hard I joined Chie at the pool side relaxing, reading and sleeping. We sent most of the weekend like this, just taking a break from relaxing to have lunch and dinner. The meals were always prepared by the hosts while Chie and I always took care of the dishes afterwards.



In summary, a very relaxing weekend.



Visit to a Summer House

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On Saturday morning we departed Tokyo together with Sachi-san and Toku-san for a 3 days weekend at their summer house. It is located a 1.5-2 hours drive north east of Tokyo, just passed Chiba. We had no clue about the summer house and was surprised when we finally arrived. A wooden wall with a small “Ocean 6” written in blue on a sign. It looked like a big boat house.



But walking through a small door in the wooden wall we found that inside it was a large building dressed in unpainted weatherbeaten wood. They had found the land 25 years ago and together with 6 friends built the summer house, or rather private summer resort. 6 units in one building with the same general layout but with totally different interior decoration.

First floor in all units was an open space kitchen dining living room area with a large window wall towards the large wooden deck with a pool and ocean view. The second floor was an open space with the same glass wall as downstairs giving the bedroom an ocean view. In the back on the room was a wall of wardrobes with one door not being a wardrobe but a door into a large bathroom behind the wardrobes, bright with a glass roof.



The summer house was like another world. Surrounded by the wall on the back and green bushy forest of various trees and bamboo. No other houses in site. No sound but the wind and the ocean. And about a billion dragonflies buzzing around all day long, like in a fairytale. It was easy to relax here.



When it was too hot after staying in the sun or helping out cutting down some bamboo we cooled off in the pool. Chie was a great pool manager, keeping the pool clean 🙂 But besides pooling, cutting bamboo and cleaning the pool there were plenty of time to do just nothing but relaxing as well.



During evenings we had dinner together, talking about all things and nothing at all. Just enjoying spending time.



The last day we went down to the beach. It was a long sandy beach… And really hot and humid. Very different from the summer house just a few hundred meters away. We spent some time there walking around looking for shells and other things that have washed up on the beach.



Monday night (national holiday) we had dinner before returning back to Tokyo. It was a very nice extended weekend 🙂