Inasayama Kanko Hotel Nagasaki

... came the only foreign ships during Japan's long isolation. I walked by the former small island (now joined through land reclamation) where only 15 Dutchmen at a time were allowed, and up the steep hill where Europeans lived once Japan was "opened".

We arrived in Nagasaki at 0800 today (our Monday—your Sunday). We plan to visit ground zero where the A Bomb was dropped and go to the museum. After that we'll just play it by ear and look around.

Kobe was great. I tasted my first Kobe beef steak. The claim that it is "fork tender" is absolutely no ...

... before heading into Nagasaki's very own chinatown where we managed to catch a nightly dragon dance and grabbed some, ok chinese food (of course i'd just been in china so it never really had a chance). After this, we continued our regular tradition of going and finding a sake bar, and managed to hit the jackpot as we walked into the middle of a group of locals having their own fancy dress/hat party! A variety of wigs were donned, photos were taken and ...

... so I popped in. No English menu just a couple of pictures so I thought why not. I pointed at this soupy noodle dish and hoped for the best. It came and and was bloody amazing. The place was called Green Pepper so it had some spice to it, it came with rice on the side, the bowl of soupy goodness containing some form of meat, veggies and stuff. Amazing… the only problem is I could probably not order it again as I have no idea what it was called!

I got ...

Diesmal in einer minshuku (also ne art Pension) sehr nett die leute. Wollten uns abholen von der Station. Das Blog schreiben nimmt immer sehr viel Zeit in Anspruch, natürlich auch das raufladen der Fotos und Videos sodass ich nie vor 3 Uhr Ortszeit ins Bett gekommen bin. Deshalb war es sehr angenehm mal nicht zu schreiben. Ist halt doch eher Arbeit als entspannend...
Naja war auf jeden FAll Lustig, wir waren dort bis 31. August und sind jetzt in Fukuoka.

Ist sozusagen ...

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Nagasaki ist eher kompakt aber mit irre vielen Einwohner...vor allem wenns ein Konzert gibt ^_^.

Frage an Bixi: Hast du in letzter irgendwas gehört von einen Typen (irgendein Star/idol/johnny) der irgenwas mit einer Frau (vermutlich getötet) gemacht hat? Läuft hier rauf und runter in japan seit wir da sind. Bis jetzt haben wirs noch nicht richtig mitgekriegt (ich schiebs mal auf Andi der immer wieder auf Baseball schaltet ...

... to tell the tale. It is also thought that public protesting and outcry is what has kept governments from using more nuclear weapons . I certainly don't want to ever witness nuclear warfare in my lifetime, it is reckoned by some that it would obliterate the human race totally.. Certainly it would be horrific. Altogether a depressing afternoon that gave me a headache, but valuable education. After a solitary bento box lunch in the Hypocentre Park http ...

... crossroads and this makes for some interesting places to visit. First port of call today was Dejima - once an island inhabited by the Portuguese, and later by the Dutch. As such, this had an old-school European feel to it. There was plenty to see, including an immaculate garden featuring a scale model of Dejima. The reason it was an island was because it was the only place the foreigners were allowed to be at that time. The European connections provided a trading ...

... which of course was fine with me. Sunday we drove again to Isahaya to see what they call *cosumosu* or *cosmos* which are a bunch of wild flowers that happen to be in bloom and are very pretty. I wish mom could:ve been there...but i took pictures for her. We then went to Dejima (remember, it:s the little island that the Japanese made the Portuguese live on. And then, after the they were expelled the Dutch lived there). At ...

... for current nuclear nuttiness, but they are to me primarily about all war, and the now-more-than-ever need to understand the shrinking world in which we live, and the realities of the other. I've asked myself 'how could these wonderful, polite people act as they did 70 years ago?', and of course it wasn't these folks, but their mostly now dead grandparents and great grandparents. I think it wasn't really them either, but the colorblind and ...