Visitation

Potter DNA in Hiroshima
Originally uploaded by Crystal Skull.

I am privileged to have a sister with a large overdraft limit. She found some money to send herself and my mother over to Japan to join me for spring break at the end of March. Here we are in Hiroshima. We visited various temples and shrines in Okayama prefecture, Bikan historical quarter in Kurashiki, the Ohara museum (home to originals by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol), the world's longest multispan bridge, the Seto-Ohashi, between Honshu and Shikoku and the Okayama Korakoen (one of the top 3 gardens in Japan). I managed to clock up six trips on the Shinkansen in ten days, which is just totally extravagant. We're all back at work in our respective countries now, and I can walk past shoe shops in peace.