Japanese cabbage tour in Northern Germany
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009My friend, コールみどりa.k.a. Midori Kohl, organized a cabbage tour for Japanese in her hometown of Bremen. If you are not from that area and would like to know more about these traditional tours, then Armin Grewe’s website will offer more details and photos on this Northern German tradition for “Bavarians and other foreigners to the North of Germany”.
In this video clip you get to see last Saturday’s outing, organized by Midori, with a group of about 20 Japanese pulling the traditional hand-cart with Kohl and Pinkel and its other necessary complements. The video clip is in German, with bits and pieces of Japanese as well.
Midori seems to be the perfect guide for this activity as her first name stands for the color green in Japanese. The label for this group activity has been chosen as well: kyabetsu arnuki (kyabetsu is the distorted Japanese version of cabbage and aruki derives from the verb aruku: walk).
Midori’s outing was a success and I am sure more will follow!
