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All day city and temple tour. Continued warm sunny weather. Good that we brought lots of rain and cold weather gear. Not at all clear to me why there is camping here, especially long-term camping. Maybe it’s the river access. … Continue reading →

Bus and ferry ride out to Miyaja Island famous for oysters. We did not want to go on the peace museum for nuclear or any similar excursion. Itsukushima, also known as Miyajima, is a small island in Hiroshima Bay, western … Continue reading →

A big temple and garden excursion Koichi Temple is one of the 88 Temple pilgrimage bris pilgrimage is a very difficult one as the mountain show some of the challenge. Rice, one time per year, due to shift of diet … Continue reading →

Spent another night in Kobe. Most others in our group, headed out to Kyoto. We decided to explore more of Kobe on foot. Kobe mural art project Lunch in Kobe. Patisserie salon de thé. A significant French influence in this … Continue reading →

We bagged the tours today, so as to spend time in the city of Kobe. Little need for us to do the side visits to Osaka, Nara or Kyoto – all popular tours. Kobe is an overnight stop. We get … Continue reading →

Tom provided this link so one can track where we are port to port: https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9703150 Today’s itinerary is first to a very famous shrine via cable car, lots of steps. The tour was not well attended due in part to … Continue reading →

Scroll down past this post as newest appears after Tom’s explanatory one. latest is Tokyo 2. Posts out of order likely due to time zones. All should revert to normal, soon.

Breakfast tourist tour bus then to the international cruise terminal and loading onto the boat. Possibly better refer to as a Ship. Meiji shrine and bonsai exhibit at the shrine Hama-rikyu Gardens. Seawater garden built for the Shogun. Not a … Continue reading →

Hi All – This is your friendly tech support testing the settings of the posting email feeds. After re-configuring the wonderful [?] WordPress site, I’m checking to make sure it actually works. So this message is not a complete waste, … Continue reading →

Looks like Tom has fixed the unfixable. As many as you know, Tom hates hates hates wordpress. When the boogs return we will discuss alternatives with him; for now it looks like he has the blog and comments working These … Continue reading →