A beautiful place with an horrific tale...
August 23rd 2007 Before heading of west again on the Shinkansen (bullet train) I spent one last day in Kobe and Osaka with my new friend Kouhei. He gave me a little tour of Kobe and bought me a fan which says on it in Japanese, 'life goes up and down' and a cute little friendship bracelet that when it breaks my wishes will come true...
That night I moved to Osaka, where this year the World Athletics are taking
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