Saturday 9th March Today we have come to our second Japanese port, Nagasaki. The weather here is really beautiful. After expecting it to be cold this early in the year, today it has been sunny and very warm. We started this morning by buying a day pass for the tram as it is a very easy and cheap way to get about the city. We went first to the Peace Park in the north of the city. It contains the hypocentre of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki on 9th A...

Thursday 7th March After 5 days at sea we have arrived in Osaka, Japan. We were expecting it to be quite cold but it has been very sunny and during the day it has been warm. We had to get up early to queue for Japanese immigration at 7 am. The queue went from one end of the ship to the other and back again but once it got going it was fairly quick. We went on a tour this morning starting at the Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine. There is a lovely bridge called the Taiko-b...