Wow - have started to read the blog Hi Jude, Hi Glen, I have just beeen sorting through my wedding stuff and found your card with the blog address on. Started to read (have gotten to Kyoto so far) but its bed time now. Will be reading the rest over the next week. Am sooo jealous, looks like your having a fab time. will message u again when i've caught up with your travels.
Will have to meet up when you get back, You can introduce me to your husband and I'll intoduce you to mine. :) Rach
puppets hi kids i see glynn has got another puppet are you going to do puppet shows when you come home ha ha ha its not a big place is it i like the pictures of the fish and the statues look cool look after yourselfs lee has been bad had to go the hospital with him on sunday they gave him some tablets to take he has got a very bad cold cougth and flu virus will let you no how he is in a few days love mom dad and poorly boy lee love you loads x x x x x x x xx
You don't know me, but somehow I found your blog and your journey is so inspirational that I want to do something very similar later this year. My heart is set on emigrating to NZ but I want to see a lot of the world along the way. Thanks for sharing your adventure and I hope you continue to have fun and a great life wherever that may be.
Mickey-Mouse-George hey you both worldtravellers! was nice talking to you last saturday! now you seem to be on the easter islands - it must be georgeous there as I've seen in some tv travel mags. Hope the voodoo there won't do you any harm!? Please send a postcard from over there...no person I know has ever been there...wow!! stupid bush is brilliant as a mickey mouse who cannot really speak - he should have been born as one so he could not have started so many wars and bad things...go get him and bite him - mickey!!! :-) miss you both a lot ! take care and enjoy your further travel - don't let the southamerican voodoo-magic come over you ;-) liebe gruesse aus dem wenig winterlichen muenchen, eure esther!
Greetings from Germany! Hey both of you!
Greetings from Germany. I always read your blog and really enjoy it. I then feel for a couple of minutes like being away as well instead of sitting in the library writing my thesis...
Have a great time with the giants at the Easter Islands,
Andrea :-)
Hooray! Hooray for dolfins! We saw some in America, but the captive kind you see interacting with humans who are studying/playing. How utterly cool to get close to wild ones! Shame about the lack of photos - guess that's one experience which will have to be retained in memory and words.
Insider Tips Thanks for the low-down on Santiago and Valpo (actually, we're there now). We're heading back to Santiago in a few days and will be sure to check your info again - it's much appreciated :-)
art, food and booze if you're into murals and street art, just wait till you get to valparaiso. the lower part of the city isn't all that great but the hills are fabulous (especially cerro alegre and cerro concepcion, cerro=hill). in santiago, i really recommend a bar call "la liguria", (address: providencia 1373, about 30-50m from metro station manuel montt, line 1). they have great pitchers of wine with fruit (ponche, or punch, is white wine with peaches or chirimoya, a south american fruit; or else borgoña, red wine with strawberries). again, there's nothing wrong with santiago at night in the areas you will be going, especially in providencia just west of downtown. more in your neck of the woods near barrio brasil, if you go west just a half mile or so from plaza brasil you can find cumming street, which also has some interesting bars and restaurants (between the alameda and catedral streets, metro stop republica on line 1). barrio bellavista, where you were near cerro san cristoba (the big hill you climbed) has good nightlife, especially weekends. a common and tastey snack in santiago are completos (hot dogs with avocados, tomatoes, and mayonaise) and of course empanadas (turnovers). pisco sours are a tastey and intoxicating chilean mixed drink made with pisco, chile's (and peru's) national liquor, sort of like brandy.
dangerous city wonderful blog. you guys are living the life! just wanted to say a thing or two about santiago (don't know if you're even there still). santiago is actually THE safest capital city in the americas--only ottawa is safer with homicide rate of 1.1/100k people--and chile itself is easily the safest country along with canada. santiago has a murder rate of 1.4/100,000 people (compared with about 12/100k for most US cities, i know you're not americans but that's my reference, and lower than canada's). unless you venture into an unusually dangerous neighborhood (and as a tourist you have to really try hard to find one, you won't happen upon a bad area by accident) you will not get mugged. the main danger is pickpockets, but you're both seasoned travelers so unless you totally do something stupid you won't have any problems. no need to be paranoid, but being aware of your surroundings never hurt anyone. cheers, and enjoy your time in chile!
Good to see you back! Hi there - Good to see you're back and blogging! I think the subscription ran out or something as I had stopped receiving the e-mails. So I've re-subscribed and looking forward to the tales of your exploits! Hope you're having fun.
there back hi kids glad to see you have had a good time got your txt messages got lots to tell you when i can glad your ok cant wait to see your pics love mom dad and lee x x x x x x
Stunning! Sounds like you definitely did the best thing with the transport logistics. If you had felt you were being hurried along too much it might have been a different sort of experience. The crossing itself looks absolutely stunning I would’ve loved it I can tell.
Where the baby bunnies! Good to read you're still having fun - What have you been feeding Jish! Such enormous amounts of beans that he felt the need to hypnotise an alpaca so he could get some thing else?
Dino-Phobia Hi there - Looks like that was some good aversion therapy, Jude. Next time you come across a bunch of Dinos I expect you'll be up an' at 'em no problem!
Red Flower on Trees That tree is a Pohutukawa Tree...
NZ's own Christmas Tree. Legend has it that if the flower in November, we're going to have a long hot summer... the 'kawas flowered in November and as I write this, it's 19oC....
pic thanks for the great picture of david and his son he is so like young albert how did you manage to get it sorry to hear that you had a bad start to the new year still it will get better look on the bright side you are on your next bit of your adventure looking forward to your next lot of pics love to you both happy new year love mom dad and lee x x x x x for jish x x x x x x
new year hi kids happy new year to you both hope you are enjoying yourselfs there everybody sends there love cant wait to see you both take care ps i hope new year was better than xmas for you x x x x x x x
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
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Wow - have started to read the blog
Hi Jude, Hi Glen, I have just beeen sorting through my wedding stuff and found your card with the blog address on. Started to read (have gotten to Kyoto so far) but its bed time now. Will be reading the rest over the next week. Am sooo jealous, looks like your having a fab time. will message u again when i've caught up with your travels. Will have to meet up when you get back, You can introduce me to your husband and I'll intoduce you to mine. :) Rach