Around The World in (just over) 80 days
We have now been in Australia for 5 days and are happily settling in to the relaxed Aussie way of life. We are very lucky in that we are staying with Chris’ parents in their house swap in the Brisbane suburbs. It is winter here so the weather is cool by local standards (20-25C by [...]
We are now in Australia after an overnight flight from Hong Kong. It’s winter here, although since we are in Brisbane it is quite pleasant. Chilly in the morning and evenings but usually sunny and in the twenties during the day. Makes a nice change from the stickiness of Hong Kong.
We spent Anna’s Birthday at Hong Kong Disneyland. Hear what she thought of it.
Anna at Hong Kong Disneyland from Chris Rimmer on Vimeo.
Nathan Road Lights, originally uploaded by Chrstopher.
Hong Kong came as a bit of shock after Japan. For a start it’s quite a bit hotter down here (every day it’s around 30C) and humid too. The girls have found this difficult. It’s also noisier and busier than Kyoto or Hiroshima – in many ways it is [...]
We spent an afternoon at the Peace Park and Memorial Museum in Hiroshima. It evokes very vividly the destruction wrought on the city when the atomic bomb was dropped on the morning of 6th August 1945.
Perhaps the most emotive place of all is the Childrens Peace Monument, which was erected in memory of a little [...]
On Thursday we came to hiroshima by Shinkansen. From the inside you do not really feel like you are going that fast. You only feel sick when you look through the window or from the outside of the train. The landscape zooms by and i thought it would be a shame if nobody could see [...]
As Louisa mentioned, we are now in Hiroshima. We got here on the Shinkansen (“Bullet Train”) from Kyoto. I took a couple of videos, one on the platform waiting to leave and one on the train itself.
Hikari Shinkansen Leaving Kyoto Station from Chris Rimmer on Vimeo.
View from the Shinkansen from Chris Rimmer on Vimeo.
Tomorrow is our last day in japan. I am looking forward to a baseball match we are going to see. It is the Tokyo Yakult Swallows vs the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Carp play in red and swallows play in blue. I can not wait for the match. There are plenty of shops to buy gear [...]
After visiting Sanjusangen Temple yesterday I’m able to update you on further technological developments in the Japanese sanitary-ware department. The highlight of the visit in the girls’ eyes was not the vast hall housing 1001 images of Kannon the god of Mercy but the toilets.
They discovered that some toilets have a button to press that [...]
Obviously Japan is a country where the native language is very much different to anything we are used to, with alphabet(s) totally different from European ones. But it isn’t hard to travel about, buy meals and so on. For starters, there is English writing everywhere. Plus the Japanese are just so polite and eager to [...]
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