LONDON Birthdays

Joint birthday celebrations with Joe's sister Gill...

T is for Toowoomba... Lucy, Nick, Joe and Gill.

Snakebites!!! (my first)

Ness, Dave and Nick.

KYOTO

These are just a few snaps from in and around Kyoto...

Actually, this first picture isn't tecnically Kyoto. It's Kibune which was about 40 minutes out of town in the mountains. We walked from there to Kurama... where I had my first onsen (Japanese bath) experience.

Stepping stones at Heian jingu.

The Golden Pavilion. You can just see that there is red carpet laid down on the ground floor. That was for George W. Bush who was there about an hour before us!

More Autumn leaves. These were at the Silver Pavilion.

Ryoan-ji zen garden.

KYOTO Monkeys

We stumbled upon this monkey park purely by chance.

Really !! It wasn't in the Lonely Planet !

Anyway, the monkeys were roaming wild all over this hill and you could walk among them. At the top of the hill they were sitting on all of the benches so you couldn't sit down!

At the top of the hill you could go into this cage and feed the monkeys too...

KYOTO And how we made the World Cup

Kiyomizu, Kyoto. The best 200 yen Joe ever spent!

AUTUMN LEAVES

The Autumn leaves in Japan were so beautiful. I took too many photos!

Here's one of them...

TOKYO Favourite things

A few of my Tokyo favourites...

Rhian outside ITOYA!!! The greatest paper shop in the world. :-)

Hachiko crossing, Shibuya.

... Hachiko himself in a rather fetching cardigan.

Sushi from Tsukiji. Our favourite!

KAREOKE!!!

TOKYO Harajuku girls

Thanks to Rhiain for asking everyone nicely if they would mind posing for a photo!

TOKYO Gaba Ginza

Ginza. Where I worked in Tokyo.

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The early morning girls.

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...and again.

Drinks.

TOKYO Yoyogi Koen

Yoyogi Koen House - Home Sweet Home

Flatmates

Stu and Nina

With Yuka - owner of our local Irish pub!

TOKYO Amusing signs

As you can imagine, you see some funny things in Japan!

Our local bakery

Tee hee...

We were relieved that we didn't have any dental emergencies!

Look out ladies!

A resturant in Kyoto!

HAKONE

We took a day trip out of Tokyo to visit Hakone.

Lake Ashi. We sailed across the lake on a big pirate ship...

... and saw Mount Fuji for the first time!

Owakudani. At the top of a mountain in the area... hot springs and a strong smell of sulphur.

Us at Owakudani.

The Little Prince museum at Hakone

TOKYO DISNEYLAND

This was the first ever outing for my digital camera. Such fun!...

The Disney castle

Joe getting into the Disney spirit

A lovely Halloween display!

Chilling with Pluto!