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Published: October 7th 2012
After an action packed few days in Kyoto, we were on our way to Hiroshima, about 2 hours south.
Hiroshima is most known for being blown apart by the Atomic Bomb which the USA dropped without any warning on the city on August 6th 1945 (end of WW2), wiping out the whole city and anyone within 3km of it – more of this to follow shortly.
We arrived in Hiroshima by the Bullet train in the afternoon...
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Amanda
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See both sides
Hey you two, loving the blogs! You do write a lot, which is great for us all following you but must be quite hard work, but makes a great journal and keepsake for you both. So Hiroshima was the end of world war 2, not 1. Although empathy for the Japenese is there and war is always terrible, my grandfather was a prisoner of war of the Japenese during this war and I have read books about it and how they were treated, so you do see both sides and they were nasty f...kers! Likewise when I went to Germany in June, we only hear the British side of the war, but we blew the Germans to smithereens and devastated many of their cities, so I then appreciated their side a little more then too. At the end of the day it is not usually the humble man in the street that decides these wars but unfortunately they and their families have to suffer the consequences. So I heard today that you are loving Hong Kong, very jealous as that is very much on my bucket list to visit. So hoping you write loads and photo everything that moves! Lots of love to you both, enjoy and be safe! Amanda xxxx