Monday:
Before Jo and I meet up with Yuki and Keyo we walked to the site of the martyrs and whilst he was trying to write his postcards he made friends with a kindergarten group and provided the children and eventually the teachers, at the insistance of the children, with entertainment for about 20 minutes (it was a slightly surreal cross cultural exchange). We meet the girls near the train station, buy lunch from the supermarket, and go to the estuary for a picnic. It was amazing to see birds of prey flying with childrens kites. After we had eaten we went to Dejima. This was an Island that was constructed to maintain trade with the East India trading company whilst keeping christianity out of Japan; Here there where a few excavations and a number of reconstructed buildings. Later we had a meal at the shopping centre and I wnt back to the buissnessman hotel we had booked for this night and Jo went off with the girls for the evening and returned sometime later he had been to a kareoke bar.