Asia – Day 15, Wednesday, October 22, 2015

Barb slept in while Ed had breakfast and went to the future cruise desk and booked two cruises.

The first one that we booked starts October 12, 2015, for 11 nights.   We will visit the Black Sea, starting in Istanbul, Turkey and going to Burgas, Bulgaria, Sochi, Russia, Sevastopol, Yalta and Odessa, Ukraine and back to Istanbul.

The second cruise we booked is January 3, 2016 and is South America.  We will start in Buenos Aires, Argentina and visit Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile including Cape Horn.  It is a 14 night cruise.

Kobe is the 5^th largest city in Japan and of course their claim to fame is Kobe Beef.  We have been told a lot about it and it will be fun experiencing it.  We found out that they message the cows and give them Sake and a typical famer only has 5 cows at a time because of the “hands-on” care that they give the cows.  A really big farmer might have 15 cows. 

At noon we arrived in the port of Kobe, Japan.  We will be here overnight and leave tomorrow at 5:00pm.  As this is our first stop in Japan, we had to wait for customs and immigrations to clear everyone.  We finally left the ship at 1:30pm which was earlier than we expected. 

We took the free shuttle for a 10 minute ride to the center of town where we went into two huge indoors shopping malls.  The problem here is that they do not negotiate – so what is the fun in shopping!

Then we took the 1 hour city loop tour so that we could see where all of the sights that we wanted to see where.  The tour cost $2.42 each on a cute little trolly!

After that we went looking for somewhere with a lot of Japanese who were eating.  We found a neat little place and ordered something with Kobe beef and a lot of veggies.  It was good.

We walked around a little more and then took the shuttle back to the ship.

Then we saw the lounge show which was two singers from the ship’s group and they were really good.

Because the casino is not open, that is all for tonight and tomorrow we will have a big day in Kobe.

Night from Kobe.

 

On the tour bus

 

Directing traffic!!

 

Another dinner meal of ???

 

Where we ate dinner