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After leaving Nagasaki, we sailed into the Yellow Sea on our way to Xingang, China where we will conclude our cruise. Today is our last day aboard the ship...which means we are busy relaxing, packing, doing laundry and enjoying some fun before disembarking. We joined our group of friends for an intense game of Around the World Table Tennis. I think Suzy invented this game while on the ship...it involves all 8 of us getting around the ping pong table, one person lobs the ball over the net an...

The last day at sea was a little sad.  We had a lot to do with laundery and of course socializing.  We all thought that this would be the last we would see our new friends.  We had dinner with our friends then went dancing to say good bye to the band.  All week we had been watching the band on the Saphire Princess, Deep Blue. They were great all week so we wanted to say our farewells.

For both Akiko and me this was a very much looked forward part fo the trip.  For me I wanted to see the historical parts of this city.  Akiko was going to meet a long time friend who she had not seen for a very long time.  Her friend had just got back from living in Iran so she would have many stories to share with Akiko.Nagaski is a city that has left a huge imprint on me.  Rarely do I visit a city and say to myself not only could I live here but it is a beautiful as my h...

As Nagasaki´s history everybody knows but walking at the spot feels weird. The city is easely reachable with the Kyushu express train. It is a very modern train and seats are comfortable. The station has also some trolleys driving trough the small city. The China town is also small but have some nice shops and near there got a Dutch sloop. The city have maked memorials near the ground and shows many facts about what happend,why and how. Huis ten Bosch or Oranda mura is near Nagasaki an...

This trip was totally out of the blue, whilst on my Working Holiday Visa in New Zealand, I needed to get away from windy Wellington so I chose this strange combination. I was spoilt with beautiful deserted Motu in the South Pacific and amazed at the Japanese culture, its a Country like no other I've ever witnessed, a place I fell in love with and hope to return very soon.

A 2 weeks' journey around japan.

  "Let's catch a bus" "OK" With that, my friend Jon and I walked a couple of blocks to a major street in Sasebo hoping to hail a cab. We figured that if we could get a cab to stop we would be able to ask, more or less, where the bus station was. How wrong we were. There was absolutely no way we were understanding each other, much less understanding directions. Finally, after pointing to a picture of a bus on a pamphlet I was holding, the cab driver understood and drove us to a reddish...

Definitely a city worth seeing.  Visit the peace park, the WW2 peace museum, the epic center (where the bomb center of the bomb was), an old church, spectacle bridge, and several old temples.  Take a 100Yen trolley ride around the city.

Finding Victoria. Many countries across the globe have honoured Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Commonwealth. On my travels I will keep my eye out for various namesakes.