Staff room letters

Sometimes work is tough and you wish you were at home in bed. Then you get a letter from one of the old ladies you work with, inviting you to lunch at the weekend, and everything is alright again.

Especially noteworthy details here include the decorative use of highlighter and unfortunate misspelling of my name.

Miyajima

In addition to the aforementioned Itsukushima Shrine and all sorts of other exciting things, Miyajima has loads of deer just roaming around, having a laugh. Here is a picture on one licking itself. Great stuff altogether.

Itsukushima Shrine

on Miyajima is the most photographed shrine in all of Japan, or so I am led to believe.

So, um, here is another picture of it.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima is a very nice city, dare I say the nicest I have visited so far in Japan. Which, for a former site of nuclear holocaust, is good going. Nice one, Hiroshima.

Drinking in public

is legal in Japan. This works because, for the most part, Japanese people have the self-respect not to abuse this law and get wrecked down the back of the bus. Unlike me.