Hiroshima @ 62
Like last year, paid a visit to the memorial evening of the Hiroshima bombing yesterday.
Fell asleep on the couch and missed the first twenty-odd minutes (the finnish euphemism for that is, obviously, a hideous pun on the event).
Not much had changed in a year. The program was still run by the same guys, and contained music and speeches in pretty much equal proportions.
Styrofoam lanterns, probably numbering in the low hundreds, were once again released into the darkening Töölönlahti. Though this time the current seemed very limp, and not at all interested in pulling the contraptions into the sea.
(Yeah - all-black web pages are pretentious, but the photos come out so much better on a dark background, that a temporary lapse couldn’t really be avoided.)
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