Osaka

17:00 – Sorry, no post again last night as we were, for the second time, in a Japanese port, where use of the internet is banned!  So much for a free country!  We walked around Osaka yesterday with Elizabeth and Geoff sampling Japanese culture and a nearby cafe for lunch.  A clean and tidy city where even the manhole covers are decorated.  We went took a turn on the big wheel – right next to the ship.  We left port to a band playing at 18.30 but stopped an hour later while a member of the crew was taken off by launch to hospital!

At sea now for 5 days travelling south-east towards Papua New Guinea.  It will now hopefully get warmer every day, currently 16C.  Internet onbord playing up so no pictures today, yet.....