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
Umeda Sky Buildingbig and shiny, isn't it? See those 2 beams going across at the top? That's the escalators!
Wavy corridorThere was some cool architecture kicking about, including this wavy corridor.
Don't look down!Remember that escalator I mentioned earlier? This is Glynn on it!
Through RoadTake a look at the round building in the centre - yes, the one with a road goign through it! did they build around an existing road or build both road and building together, I wonder...
Escalator from aboveNot only was the escalator high up but there was nothing underneath it either!
Osaka skylineJude pretends she's really not scared of heights. Are you convinced? Note in the distance the red ferris wheel on top of a building. we're staying nearby in Umeda.
The purple potato strikes againThis time in the form of a rather yummy biscuit. Honestly, they are really nice, despite the look on Glynn's face!
Taking the kabukiWe found these guys hanging around above a shopping arcade. They're actually figures from the traditional Japanese Kabuki theatre.
Hep 5 ferris wheelHere's the big ferris wheel you could see from the Osaka skyline photo. It really is on top of the Hep 5 department store, hence the name.
Japanese FayreThis is Glynn tucking into some yams with raw egg, seaweed and plum sauce. It looked nice than it tasted (to me anyway, Glynn liked it!)
loving the photos. its well weird, seeing you so far away on the other side of the world, you both look very content so far, and the architecture looks fucking cool. I watched a thang on Shanghai last night and the architecture and the whole redesign of a city is so interesting, its all a bloody fallic power show, but impressive at the same time, ahh the contradiction of life.... i rechone u guys will end up in some budhist camp and find the meaning of life
have even more fun
x
maddie
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loving the photos. its well weird, seeing you so far away on the other side of the world, you both look very content so far, and the architecture looks fucking cool. I watched a thang on Shanghai last night and the architecture and the whole redesign of a city is so interesting, its all a bloody fallic power show, but impressive at the same time, ahh the contradiction of life.... i rechone u guys will end up in some budhist camp and find the meaning of life have even more fun x