Hello! Welcome to Jude and Glynn's travel blog. We're a pair of newlyweds freshly back from a wonderful year spent traversing the globe and about to embark on our newest adventure - emigrating to New Zealand!
About us: Glynn's 34, a Batman fanatic and graphic novel afficionado, a Warehouse Supervisor when he has to be and a general all-round nice guy. Jude is 33, a hardened gig and festival goer, a Lecturer dabbling in IT, Literacy and German and a general all-round nice girl.
We met in 2004 over the internet and were married in Feb 2006. We've so far been to Japan, Hong Kong, China, V... full info
Tiny cars!Here's the next in the series of tiny vehicles. Nice modelling, Jude.
Messing about by the riverThis is Glynn posing after successfully jumping across a load of stream to get to dry land. Junko and Jude are still trying to get across.
Don't do it!Glynn wonders whether he can make it across the river in a single bound. I hate to break it to him that maybe his superpowers don't extend this far!
Tickets Please!Glynn shows his ticket to the local train inspector. Could it be that Professor McGonagall is moonlighting in Japan?
Ok Ok, you win!Junko concedes that Glynn is the king of stone skimming. Can you believe she had never done it before?
Nijo Castle, KyotoThis was a lovely place to visit. Very old buildings with paper sliding doors and the famous gently squeaking nightingale floors.
Nijo Castle gardensThe castle also had the most stunning gardens I have yet seen in Japan - and that's saying something as they are all so beautiful here.
I did it my wayGlynn and Kimiko, our new friend, sing it Japanese style. Yep, this is karaoke!!
Glynn does Beastie BoysGlynn takes the mike for a bit of Beastie Boys. Check, check, check, check it out!
Like a VirginJude and Junko give Madonna a run for her money.
Sweet serenadeGlynn tries to serenade Jude - with a Limp Bizkit number!