The weather since leaving Busan especially, has been wrecking havoc with our itinerary. We were supposed to go to Hiroshima …. yesterday. That was the whole reason we took this leg of the cruise. It was cancelled because of the inclement weather. It was really quite bad.  In Busan, S Korea when were about to leave, it felt as low as -12 C because of the wind. They had mentioned that the strait that we would have had to go through was too treaturous to navigate in these winds.  When I looked in the map, I totally get it.  Next scheduled stop was Kochi but they don’t have proper facility for arriving passengers…. (Immigration). That would have been done at Hiroshima so now we go to Kobe earlier than planned.., spending an extra part day there.  At this moment, it is bright and sunny, the seas have just a little chop and it’s slightly warmer than it has been. 

We have arrived hours ago but the face-to-face is taking a whole lot longer than I think anyone imagined.  Because we were not expected here today there are no scheduled excursions.  That is a good thing.  And…no one can come back onto the ship until everyone has been through the process