Western Honshu, Japan

Have been doing some serious sight seeing this last week. Started off in Hiroshima where the 1st atom bomb in history was dropped. Quite a solom day really. They have one remaining building still standing which is half destroyed as a reminder. The museum goes into graphic detail of why and when the bomb was dropped, the chemical reactions in the bomb, how bombs are made and fired, what happens when it explodes, the effect of its power and after results. Lots of graphic photos of the carnage it left. The whole time re-enforcing the message that Japan does not have any nuclear weapons in its arsenaland that all nuclear weapons should be destroyed. The message really does hit homeas well. Outside the museam they have the flame of peace that contunally burns until all nuclear weapons in the world have been destroyed. Unfortunately I think that the fuel used to burn the flame will run out before that dream is realised and when the fuel runs out it might be the cause of the next nuclear attack in our world. Whoop, little bit of politics there, my name's Ben Elton,good night!!


Next up, hop on a ferry across to a little island called Miyajima. A very attractive quiet little village that has a giant shrine poking out of the water. Very beautiful, chibadee check it:





It also has wild deer that wander around the village (check the photos in the last article!).Spent the night in a nice little Inn and had a 'western' breakfast of scrambled egg and lettuce. Errr, yeah.


The next day I went to another little place which has a hill to climb to get a panoramic view of all the islands around Japan.On the way in the bus it passes a big theme park on top of a hill. The guide book says to avoid the tacky theme park and carry on to the observation point, which I did. The view was fantastic from the observation point but I cant help thinking that I would have preferred the theme park! Me and this guide book Ive got are gonna fall out pretty soon I reckon! Anyway, heres the view:

Made my way back to Ridleys for a bit of Friday night dancing. Cant get used to getting drinks vouchers when entering a club so keep forgetting to use my vouchers. Must get out of that bad habbit. The club was a nice size with an awesome sound system (not too loud and you can hear everything - now theres a novel approach!). The DJ also managed to drop hiphop track Golddigger in the middle of a progressive house set which was ballsy to say the least. The japanese crowd is quite strange as while Im jumping around and whooping like a loon they sort of sway side to side like theyre at a school disco. Maybe they need more encouragement. Met various Japanese DJs and MCs, one of which was called simply 'MC Chin' due to his impressively sized, er, chin.

A top night was had and on the way home some old lady felt up my groin inviting me in for a 'massage'. I politely declined and carried on eating my crisps. Well, it was 7am ferchrisesake and I was ker-nack-ered!!