First stop Kanada Cafe for more iced coffee from the cool Kanada Girls. Very excited when I showed them that I'd taken a picture of our picture on their website.

Then the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum . Not much I can say about this. We paid for the audio guide and it was horror story after horror story. I just sobbed as I wandered around. I would imagine Al was the same but we just haven't talked about it.

EVERYONE should be made to walk through the museum and listen to the guide and look at the burnt and bloodided clothes, and school satchels, and hair that fell out due to radiation poisoning, and deformed finger nails, and bits of glass that worked their ways out of the victim,sand a tiny little tricycle that was originally buried with the body of its three year old owner until it was dug up after 40 years and given to the museum. WHY DO HUMANS PERSIST IN FIGHTING EACH OTHER???????????

When we came out of the museum there were hundreds of kids out in the park and they must have had an assignment to ask Anglos a series of questions. And ask they did. As soon as one lot had asked, and given us our little origami hat or crane or bowl, another would be running towards us . We were eventually just giving them answers before they could ask.

Outta there and on to the Hiroshima Museum of Art. How odd to be in Japan, in a spectacularly intimate gallery, looking at Picasso, Rodin, Monet, Manet, etc etc. Wow.

Hiroshima Castle next. Didn't go into the actual castle although maybe we should have as I would have liked to see a castle without it being packed with art exhibits, re-creations etc, just a bare building.

Day getting on so we race back to the hotel, cool down for 10 minutes, then head back out to Zoom Zoom Stadium to watch the Carps.

It was bloody brilliant. Fantastic seats, seven rows from the field midway between the home plate and first base. We even got up on the big screen (ok, a group of maybe 20 seats that we were sat in)!!

Funniest moment? Al went and bought food. He came back with what he was horrified to think was a fried seahorse. It was huge (see picture), so definitely not a seahorse, but a octopus tentacle. Soooooo much better!!! 

Wish there was a baseball game in every city way stay. Will have to check out what might be on in Tokyo.

A lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng walk back to the hotel but we both had a skinful so it didn't really matter cos we had a great night.