Sendai

Rolling ship rocking in 2.5 m waves starboard to port. Not a major problem. Made shower a bit unstable.

We had a planned excursion to one of the breweries , one of several, and then tothe shrine. Too many hours on the bus, so we decided to go into the city by ourselves.

Docking

Trying it. OK but not NYC.

Zelkova

It is a medium-sized deciduous tree, native to Japan, Korea, eastern China, and Taiwan.

Some of the guide books call Sendai the city of trees

Had a discussion with a native who had lived in America for a number of years. He was helping us try and buy apples, translate their type, taste and see which were crisp.

But it turns out you can’t eat apples in the street and you can’t bring fruit back to the cruise ship so no apples were purchased.

We did have a conversation with him about Trump asking him what he thought the locals thought. Wants to be a king, tariffs, corrupt all the usual things without the fine detail.