It's a bit nippy
It's getting cold out her, you know. But...in a good way so far. In fact the last couple of weeks have been really clear and really sunny and reakky rather cold. A bit of frost and you've got my perfect weather!
I spent last weeken in Nagasaki- a pretty infamous place if ever there was one. We soent our first day (of 3 ) taking in the peace park and the museum that gives plentiful informaion about the ins and outs of both the nuclear explosion of 1945 and the developments in nuclear warfare that have taken place post-war. It was thoroughly fascinating, and offered a wealth of information in really well set-out way. It was, I think, a little smaller than the museum I visited in Hiroshima 4 years back, but equally as interesting.
The peace park was playing host to, quite literally, a school trip. That is, it appeared that the entire schoiol had decided to visit on the same day, meaning that there were a fair few students running about the place. Also, I thought the statue in the peace park, designed to condone the concept of nuclear war was, despite its good intentions, nothing more than a large green monstrosity. That aside, the park was serene and calm and, perhaps most surprisingly for mid-Novermber, really warm (considerably more so than Gifu right now!)- which was to be expected, I suppose, since we were on Kyushu- a more southerly island.
The remaining 2 days were spent enjoying Nagasaki's multi-cultural sights. It was the first open port in Japan, so there are shrines from Chinese settlers, catholic churches and dutch gardens. It really is a very pleasant city- especially when viewed from the top of one of the surrounding mountains, frome which you can also see out to see.
Oh well- back to work.
I spent last weeken in Nagasaki- a pretty infamous place if ever there was one. We soent our first day (of 3 ) taking in the peace park and the museum that gives plentiful informaion about the ins and outs of both the nuclear explosion of 1945 and the developments in nuclear warfare that have taken place post-war. It was thoroughly fascinating, and offered a wealth of information in really well set-out way. It was, I think, a little smaller than the museum I visited in Hiroshima 4 years back, but equally as interesting.
The peace park was playing host to, quite literally, a school trip. That is, it appeared that the entire schoiol had decided to visit on the same day, meaning that there were a fair few students running about the place. Also, I thought the statue in the peace park, designed to condone the concept of nuclear war was, despite its good intentions, nothing more than a large green monstrosity. That aside, the park was serene and calm and, perhaps most surprisingly for mid-Novermber, really warm (considerably more so than Gifu right now!)- which was to be expected, I suppose, since we were on Kyushu- a more southerly island.
The remaining 2 days were spent enjoying Nagasaki's multi-cultural sights. It was the first open port in Japan, so there are shrines from Chinese settlers, catholic churches and dutch gardens. It really is a very pleasant city- especially when viewed from the top of one of the surrounding mountains, frome which you can also see out to see.
Oh well- back to work.
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