Hiroshima

Hiroshima usually brings up thoughts of one thing, and there is a lot of that thing around hiroshima. Scores of school groups surrounded the peace park and Dome it seemed like it was their version of a year 6 trip to Canberra. Many of them also had a workbook requiring speaking some English to foreigners, needless to say we had a lot of superficial conversations with 8 year olds.

The childrens area of the park was quite moving. People make scores of paper cranes to remember a girl who died of leukaemia who thought that if she could make 1000 cranes then she wouldn`t die - unfotunately she passed away before finishing them. But now school classes make a 1000 cranes and bring them to the memorial and sing a little song to remember all the kids who died in the bomb and the after effects.

But the town is pretty great, very easy to navigate, pretty good food, vibant nightlife. We even tracked down some fantastic Japanese\Spanish tapas which were pretty excting.