Miyajima and Hiroshima
Aug. 10th, 2007 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firstlightWe spent a lot of today on Miyajima in the end. It's an island just off the coast by Hiroshima, with temples and a famous shrine on it. And deer. It has lots of deer. They're very... free range.
Number of deer observed eating tourist brochures/maps: 4
Number of deer observed eating plastic cups: 1
Number of deer observed attempting to steal handbags: 1
Number of deer observed eating people's clothing: 1
Number of deer observed mobbing one child for food: at least 10.
Was a really nice day. We just sort of... ambled. Saw the shrine, saw the not-quite-so-floating torii (the tide was out), did not get menaced by deer. Hiroshima... it was too late to go to the peace museum by the time we got back from Miyajima, so we just walked through the park by the A-bomb dome. It's very... hm. Hiroshima as a city feels so alive (which is a strange thing to say, I guess, but it's sort of late and I can't think of another way to put it *g*) and it's very hard to imagine the level of destruction which took place there, even looking at the remains of the dome.
That was our day. Hiroshima... we just wandered through it quickly but it seemed like a lovely city. We didn't see much of it, though.
I ate a proper meal in the evening and I am not suffering for it. That's got to be a cause for some sort of celebration. (It's the first time since the 3rd. >_> I've been eating, sure, but I've been picking at food - that's all. I have an apetite again. Whee.)
...about time to go to bed now, I reckon.
I'm going home so soon. Where did the time go? (...I guess a chunk of it sort of got eaten by illness. But still.)
Number of deer observed eating tourist brochures/maps: 4
Number of deer observed eating plastic cups: 1
Number of deer observed attempting to steal handbags: 1
Number of deer observed eating people's clothing: 1
Number of deer observed mobbing one child for food: at least 10.
Was a really nice day. We just sort of... ambled. Saw the shrine, saw the not-quite-so-floating torii (the tide was out), did not get menaced by deer. Hiroshima... it was too late to go to the peace museum by the time we got back from Miyajima, so we just walked through the park by the A-bomb dome. It's very... hm. Hiroshima as a city feels so alive (which is a strange thing to say, I guess, but it's sort of late and I can't think of another way to put it *g*) and it's very hard to imagine the level of destruction which took place there, even looking at the remains of the dome.
That was our day. Hiroshima... we just wandered through it quickly but it seemed like a lovely city. We didn't see much of it, though.
I ate a proper meal in the evening and I am not suffering for it. That's got to be a cause for some sort of celebration. (It's the first time since the 3rd. >_> I've been eating, sure, but I've been picking at food - that's all. I have an apetite again. Whee.)
...about time to go to bed now, I reckon.
I'm going home so soon. Where did the time go? (...I guess a chunk of it sort of got eaten by illness. But still.)
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Date: 2007-08-11 04:25 am (UTC)The ones I met were pretty docile, and extremely... "friendly" if you had food. I think I had about five surrounding me at one time.