SHARING WITH ME

We took a navette from the hotel to get to Miyajima and on the way back another ferry to see Hiroshima in the day light. That is a chapter you may already have read.     It was raining too which was a great disappointment as we were to see this.  THE GREAT TORI I Everyone knows the great Tori i and I guess everyone thinks of it being quite a distance from the coast - and red. Miyajima Island, one of the most scenic spots in Japan and has long been regarded as an Island of Gods on the Seto Inland Sea. It is a romantic and historical island where the Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site, is located, along with the Virgin Forest of Mt. Misen, and numerous preserved shrines, temples and historical monuments. We would be seeing quite a lot. But back to the T orii gate. Just not our lucky day as the tide was going out and the gate itself was undergoing repairs. What hit me first was that it is not red at all but a rather insignificant orange. I wonder if Jerome and Lau