Hikawa Maru
HIKAWA MARU Recently I had the chance of building a model featuring the Hikawa Maru in scale 1/350. This vessel for both passengers and charge was completed in 1929, survived WWII with no major damages and nowadays has been turned into a floating museum and a floating hotel, kept in perfect condition and docked in the Japanese harbour of Yokohama. It is really a much beautiful plastic kit sold by Hasegawa, it has been assembled with no further detail. As Fate would have it, I travelled in a boat no much older than that Hikawa Maru, the Begoña, when I was six years old. We crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) to Vigo, stopping at La Guaira (Venezuela) and at the Canary Islands. The journey lasted seventeen…