And it was the bit I needed to find my way out of Hiroshima.Went on a boat trip yesterday (despite the Antonina Nezhdanova experience) to Miyajima, one of the islands in the Inland Sea. Yet another UNESCO World Heritage Site (you can do six of those before breakfast in most places in Japan). There are gangs of deer rampaging through the streets (never mind the monkeys - macaques, I think) but otherwise a lovely place a bit reminiscent (in a very Japanese way) of Portmeirion. Usual fabulous views - took the two-stage cable-car ride up the 530m Mt.Misen, passing the stockpot which has been going (allegedly) for 1200 years.

Typhoon No.23 (Tokage to his friends) has changed course and instead of hitting Taiwan it's heading this way, so today we have torrential rain (although not much wind; quiet at the back there). Never mind, it's still warm and according to the forecast it'll all fizzle out in a day or two. Mind you, that's according to the European Mid-Range Weather Forecasting Centre at Reading, so I'm not putting my faith in it. I know where those chaps drink.