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Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Views [39]
Four of us finished work and got into Fukuoka for the night. We did the usual walk around to see what there was to see, found a pub, another good restaurant, found another pub, and called it a night. Next day there were only two. The two Japanese guys ... Read more >
Tags: oktoberfest
Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [48]
Tacked on to the end of the Hiroshima trip we got a ferry across to the Miajima (I hope I spelt that right) Shrine. It's a very popular, and famous shrine in Japan because the gate is in the sea and the temple is built on platforms on sandflats that ... Read more >
Tags: vending machine, shrine, waterfall, bridge, eating
Sunday, 21 Sep 2008 | Views [53] | Comments [4]
Hiroshima is well known as the city where the first Atomic bomb was dropped but it isn't until you visit the site and see some of the preserved ruins that you can get a real feel for what these people went through. Listening to the Last Post at dawn ... Read more >
Tags: memorial, war, a bomb
Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 | Views [59]
I didn't know what to expect here in Japan. But I didn't really think the streets would be so clean, the cars so small and people constantly folding in half. These guys are constantly bowing in greeting, farewell or just for the hell of it. Everyone ... Read more >
Tags: work, people, culture, language
