National Transport and Toy Museum – Wanaka
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Manila, Phillipines
Arrived in Manila this morning- home port to a large number of crew so great excitement amongst the crew, many of whom will be catching up with families after 6 or 9 months at sea. Their families are also invited onboard today to see where they work so a big …
Okinawa, Japan
Strolling the ‘strip’ in Okinawa, Japan – very much like Surfers with tourist gimmicky ‘stuff’ everywhere, but then I guess I’m the tourist here! No idea what half the packaging reads, not a lot in English but a point to a purple ice-cream and I’m good!
Nagasaki, Japan
NAGASAKI – A visit today to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb ground zero location, museum and Peace Park.One of those humbling places to visit with lots of photographs, statistics and stories of what happened back in August 1945. A little one-sided with no mention anywhere as to why Nagasaki and Hiroshima …
Sakaiminato-Shi
Sakaiminato – the northernmost venue of our cruise in Japan. Scattered along the sidewalk are an amazing number of tiny bronze statues sitting atop rocks – not sure what they all represented but fun to check them out anyway.A quaint little Japanese fishing port with not a lot of touristy …
Sakaiminato, Japan
What do you recommend we pointed to on my translation app – that one he points to…. okay, whatever……
South China Sea
A day at sea yesterday through the South China Sea from Shanghai. Lots of small fishing boats out there as we cruised through, probably from both Japan on one side and South Korea on the other.An interesting dusk helicopter retrieval for a very sick patient who had to be airlifted …
