( Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima and Tokyo )

Hiroshima, Mon Amour ( Read more... )

Headed back to the British Museum this morning to see the Assyrian galleries and an excellent guided tour of their Japanese collection, which included some beautiful modern artwork as well as a fascinating array of netsuke. Rowan pleaded exhaustion after lunch (he slept yesterday afternoon and woke at about 4 am), so after I booked our tickets to ( Read more... )

Tokyo is amazing. When I arrived, though, it was also hot and humid enough that there were no cosplayers in evidence in Akihabara on Saturday (maybe they were all at San Diego Comic Con) and very few in Harajuku on Sunday. I did a lot of browsing, but my suitcase and daypack were already quite full, so I turned down the chance to buy any ninja gear ( Read more... )

When last we left the Swinetrek Before heading to Readercon, I visited Boston's Museum of Science to see their exhibit on The Dead Sea Scrolls. I took a wrong turn en route and found myself at Edgar Allan Poe Square, conveniently across the street from a large map that sent me in the right direction. This didn't leave me much time to see the rest ( Read more... )