October in Japan

The parents of Uma's class invited us to a welcome lunch. What a feast!

Ossian finds some toys to play with

A spider

Ossian climbing trees on Konabe mountain

A wasps nest

A rice field

A tree

Ossian watches the train driver ...

... and samples the door paint

Mount Hiei, where the running monks live

The ticket office at the entrance to Mount Hiei

Yo, monk!

Uma and Lila getting temple overload

Forest Rangers are Go!

Christopher Robin

Up in the clouds, about to return to Kyoto on the cablecar

The river in Kyoto

Tea

Washing up

A magical run with Max

A tree. Or two trees?

Manhole covers

COFFEE by lila

Waiting for coffee and pancakes.(picture taken by Lila)

KYOTO CRAFT by lila

Daddy doing wood block printing at Kyoto craft centre.

IMPERIAL PALACE by lila

Japanese flowers at the Imperial Palace.

Kyoto Imperial palace, it was open for 3 days ( it is open every year). It was boring for me and Uma but Daddy and Mummy really liked it. Mummy took lots of pictures. We had to wait for Mummy and we got points for spotting things. Uma spotted Mummy.

The first month in Japan

The gang, with Sen-chan

Leaving Max and Maduka after they kindly put us up during our first week in Kyoto

Playing in the street in our suburban cul-de-sac

Uma riding gracefully along

Adharanand joining in at a high altitude training camp with Ritsumi university's ekiden team. That's him at the back

Pesky deer in Nara

Nara

Uma and Lila off to school

Marietta and Ossian riding along

Uma racing for the line in the sports day relay

Lila and her friends take part in the caterpillar race

Perfect running form as Lila nears the finish line

Adharanand collects his prize after winning the local race

After the storm

Ossian in the woods

Looking out over Kyoto

"Thank you!"

Monkey lookout

Out for a stroll

Ossian

Our train home. Pretty cool

On the ghost train (with schoolfriend Mina)

Sunlight