Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan

The city of Hiroshima has such bad connections, of devastation and sorrow. In school we are taught about the horrors, with facts and figures we are later tested on...but being there is different. There is sadness to the city, but also hope; a city rebuilt from rubble, and united in the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.

We were surprised about the sheer number of school children also visiting the memorial park, but we shouldn't have been. The Japanese are determined that this tragedy will not be forgotten by future generations, and will not be repeated.

A haunting memorial, and somewhere I wouldn't have dreamed I would visit when I learnt about it all those years ago in school.Read more