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Shanghai

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Immigration and excursion management went better today but we still left about an hour late. No matter as we got everything in.

Today was largely a ride around bus tour with a couple of stops. The city is an interesting contrast to Beijing and other Chinese cities in that many of the downtown buildings are designed by architects who wanted to show off instead of just being functional or traditional. But, more about that later, for now…

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Korea

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We docked at Inchon, Korea about 7am and Immigration authorities there came onto the ship to clear those going ashore. Everyone had been assigned time slots to appear in order to keep order to the process but, as you might expect with everyone thinking they were above the rules, a goodly number ignored the slots and just came when they felt like it. So, another day started with a built-in schedule delay.

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Two Slogs and Four Blitzes = Beijing

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It was a long day today for Beijing. The ship arrived at the Tianjin port on time but China Immigration had to be satisfied that all the paperwork was as it should be so everyone could be accounted for. That involved me to some extent. Turns out that because I had seen the ship’s doctor at some point in the cruise I, and others who had seen the doctor, had to talk with a Chinese doctor to make certain all was OK and I would not be bringing plague into the country. Easy to do but full clearance for everyone could not be granted until all had been cleared.

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Dark Sun at 7:30

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How’s that for a title: Dark Sun at 7:30? We are on our second sea day between Japan and the port for Beijing, China. I woke about quarter to seven and noted on the map that right about 7:30am we were just opposite the DMZ in Korea on our starboard side and China mainland on the port side.

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Hiroshima

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I had canceled my excursion to the museum and Atomic Bomb Dome due to how I felt but last night before arriving in Hiroshima I started to feel better and had heard about a different excursion that better represented Japan and not memories of the war. So I signed up for it as there was space left. The tour was a vintage liner cruise to Miyajima Island often called “Shrine Island.”

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