なくならなくてよかった

Oスペインの友人に4月に送った拙著が「今日届いた、ありがとう」と写真付きメールが来た。四カ月かかったがなくならなくてよかった。飛脚は京都鎌倉約四百キロを三日で行ったそうだ。その計算で行くとバルセロナまで1万キロは飛脚なら七十五日である。その倍近くかかったがなんだかそれも悪くないか？

My friend in Spain sent me an email  with photo saying, “Thank you, it arrived today.” It took four months but I’m glad it didn’t go away. Hikyaku seems to have traveled about 400 km to Kamakura, From Kyoto in three days. According to that calculation, 10,000 km to Barcelona would take 75 days for Hikyaku to reach there. But in reality It took nearly twice as long, but isn’t it bad?