Nagasaki on Tuesday 20 August

Drizzly arrival into Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu this morning. The city has a very nice "in town" International Cruise Terminal and is surrounded by hills and hillside living.
Disembarkation was slow as we were re-entering Japan (with the forms, immigration, customs, walking on the disinfectation mat - seemingly it was not changed despite all the shoes crossing it, heat sensing cameras, photo recognition and fingerprint recognition - on which score, I again failed).
With an ankle back to normal and the drizzle stopped, we tackled the local trams with our dinner colleagues. The target was the Nagasaki Peace Park and associated Peace Statue, Fountain of Peace, Atomic Bomb Hypocenter and Atomic Bomb Museum. Nagasaki was hit just 3 days after Hiroshima. It was only bombed because the target city that day was blanketed by cloud - as was Nagasaki, except that a small break opened and the Mitsubishi engineering complex became the target epi-centre. The area immediately surrounding the Hypocenter included many schools, the Nagasaki Medical College - and a POW camp (which contained Australians, as well as many other nationalities) was close by. Effectively, the bomb wiped out just on 7 square km (razed to the ground in an instant) as well as starting widespread destructive fires. 75,000 killed instantly and about the same dying as a consequence.
It ought to be a compulsory group attendance site for about 25 current world leaders. It might make a difference, but I doubt it!!!
Pat and I then headed back to City Hall and wandered along the Nakashima River, passing a number of its heritage bridges, including the Meganebashi (or "Spectacles Bridge" - because, with its reflections, it resembles a pair of spectacles). This bridge is Japan's oldest remaining  stone bridge, built in 1634.
Back on board for a late lunch snack. Farewelled from Nagasaki by a big group of secondary students with brass band, singing, dancing etc.
We have a big number of kids on this cruise, many Japanese toddlers and a group of around 100 Japanese secondary students (so unobtrusive). I observed my first "pain in the bum" kid today (an Adelaide Crows supporter, aged about 11), who needed a foot up the bum, and should have been an embarrassment to his parents - but I doubt he was!!!
Beautiful dinner again (so lucky to have our dinner companions, based on my observations of a handful of other Australians). The "Spectacle" bridge must have been an omen - because as we got to dinner, Pat's glasses lost a lens - so a job for an Optometrist.
Another great show, with an absolute showman pianist accompanied by the ship orchestra.