The International Adventures of Super Joe and Jen Wonder

Still to come

2009-09-16T14:58:00.001-07:00

Back in London - Tower, More Improv, lunching in RichmondAmerica!New York - Daily Show, Central Park, Karlena and Dave, Financial District, Museums oh my, Statue of Liberty, Ellis IslandWest Coast:Vegas - gambling souless townHoover Dam, Grand CanyonSedona and rocksPhoenix petrol station (and meeting Kiwi related folks)San Diego - ZOO!Los Angeles - the sign, Hollywood Boulevard, Tar Pits,

Ou est la baguette?

2009-04-24T06:40:00.001-07:00

So as Jen said we went to CERN the particle accelerator which will open a worm hole into the future or a black hole or perhaps find the Higgs Boson, the particle GOD rides on. It was pretty awesome from a nerd point of view, we got to see the where the particle for the accelerator starts, the machine looked pretty futuristic and the rooms all had radiation warnings and such. Also because the

Geneva Geneva... Nice is nice

2009-04-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

(Disclaimer - yes yes it's terribly late, we suck :) )Off to Geneva! Train ride was lovely and uneventful, which was pleasant. It was awesome riding along between big mountain ranges, popping through quaint little towns with house up on the hills and church steeples poking out. As we saw the snow we realised how foolishly we had dressed that morning - Rome had been delicious and warm, but Geneva

Back Alley Rome Adventure

2009-04-05T08:42:00.000-07:00

Before I get to writing about Geneva I thought I would add a moment in Rome that Jen forgot but which stained my memory.After our first day in Rome after seeing the Colosseum and Forum and all the other lovely old stuff we headed toward a "Secret View" that we found in the guide book (secrets book), which had some pretty vague instructions and sounded quite exciting. It was kind of like a

Napoli to Roma

2009-04-05T08:07:00.000-07:00

Ahh *swoon*. Yeap, that is my future husband, he is tops :)The flower had wilted pretty hard towards the end of the day so we pressed it in a tissue between the pages of our guidebook, and went to one of the many souvenir shops around the bus stop area. Picked out a mood ring with pretty purple swirls on it that were similar to the flower, paid the 3 euros it cost and then I had a brand new

A Beautiful Day in Capri

2009-04-01T13:43:00.001-07:00

We started the day reasonably early in the hopes of seeing Capri and maybe some of the Amalfi Coast on the way home at night (pretty irrational hope) . Early for us turned out to be about 9:30 so not really that early. Anyway we made our way down to the docks on foot. We didn't really know where it was, the region on our map was covered by a huge picture of a boat. So we were walking around the

Napoli part deux

2009-03-31T14:08:00.000-07:00

So yeah, terrifying first night, but our hostel was reassuringly safe. Two floors up, big thick doors etc. The first night I managed to finally come down with the cold that had been threatening to arrive for a week, and had a really bad night's sleep, tossing and turning and getting up to blow my nose super loud in the shared bathroom (sorry people next door!)...In the morning we were woken

Napoli/Naples

2009-03-30T14:15:00.000-07:00

Monday 23rd March - We arrived after dark, amid a rush of Italians vying for closer spots in the passport check in line. I was amongst them with my Irish passport. This time I wished I was a New Zealander because Jen's line had just her in it. The line that I was jostling in turned out to be very similar to how traffic works in Napoli, you just push through and hopefully no one gets in the way.

Ten down, two to go

2009-03-22T15:46:00.000-07:00

Months that is. Til we get back :)So we no longer have a flat! Or jobs. We've been staying in London at Chris and Milly's which is very very appreciated. During this time we have done a few basic siteseeing trips, such as visiting the Tate Modern again (it changes regularly! ) and also a further afield trip - we went to Bath and Cardiff from Tuesday to Friday.Bath was very lovely, we went to

Toot toot all aboard

2009-03-03T12:47:00.001-08:00

Well now! What have we been up to? To start with I just finished the first day of my last week of work, and I must say I'm thrilled. Went out for pub lunch with the team since today was the last day we were all available, tasty. Spent some of my afternoon going through my notes and papers and shredding things that I

Snow plus Britain equals good times

2009-02-11T14:41:00.000-08:00

You may have heard something in the news about how Britain is have a spot of bad weather. Flash snow storms are A OK with me since they mean days off work :) Last week was great, worked Mon, Tues, Wed, and the rest of the week snow and ice meant our buses weren't running – no work for Jen and Joe! 4 day weekends are awesome :) We wandered through the snow and took lots of pictures, very nice.

Amsterda-ym, gurl

2009-02-11T14:39:00.000-08:00

We took a long weekend in October in order to visit Amsterdam, and it was pretty much awesome :) Arrived Friday night and got a tram to our hostel, and then popped up the road to a local place for dinner. The waiter was lovely and translated the menu for us – denizens of Amsterdam pretty much all

More more more!!

2009-01-20T08:01:00.000-08:00

Tuesday – Better again! No rain this time. Still pretty cold. Headed back out to town and went to Zoologica Barcelona – that's right, the Zoo!! Pretty awesome holiday so far, with circuses and zoos.. Anyways! The zoo is on this massive piece of land that used to be a massive Citadel, but was demolished as it was a sign of oppression. The Parc de la Ciutadella is now a big green expanse and the

Barcelona - let the music play

2009-01-20T07:59:00.000-08:00

So. Barcelona. At last we meet. We've been looking forward to this trip since our last one ended (Amsterdam – totally forgot to write that one up, will do!) and here it is.First off, flight was late. Apparently airline trouble turns me into a horrible person, along with all other passengers except Joe. I was angry at everyone for queueing wrong, for being too foreign, too loud, inconsiderate etc.

This just in - Bedford Christmas pretty nice thanks

2008-12-26T07:20:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas! It's boxing day and as such we're eating leftovers and playing with our new toys :) Joe is playing his new game Red Alert 3 and having fun. I am eating candy and playing games on the computer. I've already stuck all my new Harry Potter stickers into my new Harry Potter sticker book :D and read The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Plan to next cook a nice meal with my new crock pot and

Ireland concludes, now with 30% less detail!

2008-12-15T05:48:00.000-08:00

Ahh I have left things far too long to remember the full details of what we got up to. But the rest of the trip included the following: A quite beautiful afternoon where we delivered Joe's Uncle John's ashes to a family plot on Beere Island, very touching and teary (see pics of Beere island to see what a lovely day it was and the view from the church); another delicious meal out in the only

More info but still incomplete, sorry :S

2008-11-20T14:30:00.000-08:00

So, we headed off in a rental car to Castletownbere, Joe driving, me navigating and Chris and Milly playing relaxed drivees. While I am usually perfectly apt at map reading, turns out Ireland is smaller than I thought and we overshot two of our turn offs – I thought we had much farther to go than we did :) But that was no bother! For the roads of Ireland are green and pleasant, if somewhat

Slackers.

2008-10-09T13:06:00.001-07:00

The whole month of September went by with nary a comment from us on this wee bloggy. And for that we are sorry and feel very bad and hope you will all forgive us.I would first like to blame the insane weather - last week it appears that winter made a promotional appearance in the small towns of Bedford and Northampton and good GOD it was cold. I am not at all prepared for living somewhere where

Hello World

2008-08-19T12:24:00.000-07:00

Hi Gail and Richard! Hopefully you have the link for this now :)Yes yes, long time no post, blah blah. There's just not that much been happening! Here's an update though.Firstly, some of you may recall that before I left I took part in a Diva wrestling match. If you missed it you can in fact watch it on youtube! Here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcFhGLMjyEsIt's had over a thousand

We interrupt this radio silence to bring you..

2008-07-23T03:01:00.000-07:00

I've been very slack. And I don't even have the excuse that I've been working so hard - I got that job 2 weeks ago and still haven't started! They're checking my credit history etc for the last 6 freaken years and when they're done then I can start work. I've written to my recruiter a bunch of times but haven't heard anything about a start date. Grr!So instead of working and earning sweet pounds,

Can I get a hallelujah

2008-07-09T06:49:00.001-07:00

So I found this job last week and applied, and then hounded the recruiter, then had an interview yesterday morning at 10:30. Left the interview, waited at the bus stop, got a phone call from the recruiter - would I like the job? Why yes I would!I will be an intranet support analyst for Barclays, working on online reference material for the customer support team and other teams. So it's kind of

The day I met Super Chris

2008-06-24T15:06:00.000-07:00

My days consist of getting up late, playing computer games, walking to town, searching for jobs online and cooking dinner. Cooking dinner is the most fun part, made roast lamb last night (NZ lamb as it turned out, I didn't realise til I went to open it, oops carbon footprint!) and have been having fun with pasta. Joe is pretty stoked to come home to delicious dinners every night :) I am yet to

Coming to you LIVE from Bedford, Bedfordshire

2008-06-10T08:45:00.000-07:00

It's odd being in a Shire.So not that much more has happened since our last post, although I have finally uploaded the rest of our pics from Japan so go check that out! Joe started work yesterday and it looks like it's going to be fun - Joe described it as a good balance between the fun of games development and the well paying but souless pure IT work :D It's good and casual, he was overdressed

UK? OK!

2008-06-04T02:46:00.001-07:00

Or Jen will what? Lack of punctuation creates suspense, Joe!Anyways, so after hanging out around the Tokyo central JR station, and have possibly the most expensive bad coffees ever (500 yen and they were rubbish) we headed back to Narita and checked into our second hotel, the Holiday Inn. Not quite as flash as the Hilton but still very comfortable.The next morning, we got up at 6:30, took the

Sapporo to Tokyo

2008-06-01T10:41:00.001-07:00

Phew, sorry we haven't posted in a while. We've spent most of our time since the last post travelling.So now we are in London relaxing at my brother Chris' flat, which is awesome. But there was a lot that has gone on so this may be another long one...So where Jen left you we were going to head out to the Sapporo Beer garden. We went there and it was nice. Sadly there wasn't any english so we just

So many trains...

2008-05-26T18:51:00.001-07:00

Long time no post! So anyways, after we got back to Kobe we prepared for the next leg of our journey, heading north. Spent Wednesday having a break at Becky's house (you can't sightsee every day!) and then headed out for dinner and pool with Becky, Raukura, and Tim who came out from Shin Osaka again.Thursday - Sendai! The best thing about the train system here is that you don't really have to

Ignorant Gaijin!

2008-05-21T00:26:00.000-07:00

Hi all,Feels like a long time since i've posted, Jen's been hogging :)So when you last read we were in Kobe having just come back from Hiroshima...The next day we did not much, it was nice to have a little break from travelling and siting seeing. We just went into Sannomiya and shopped a little with Becky and Raukara. Also we met up with Beth who is another english teacher, but she lives out in

Conceit. Inflated.

2008-05-17T21:09:00.000-07:00

I would like to draw your attention to this awesome top Joe bought in Hiroshima:http://picasaweb.google.com/starring.jenbee/FoodAndSigns/photo#5200981730506633554It's kickin rad. We're not sure if it's pro or anti creation but we love it all the same :)We're off to Nara today and Kyoto tomorrow, so an update will come after that.

Oh and the people!

2008-05-16T06:20:00.001-07:00

I totally forgot to mention that Joe and I bumped into Amy and Nigel on Hondori St!! It was insane. Turned out we were actually staying in the same freaken hostel. How awesome :)(For those that don't know, I worked with Amy at Trade Me and she left a month or so before I did to go travelling, I had no idea that she was going to be in Japan, let alone Hiroshima, at the same time as us!)

The things I have seen

2008-05-16T01:30:00.001-07:00

It's been a short time between posts but we have done so much in that time that this entry is going to be annoying long...So as Joe said we went to Himeji Castle. It was absolutely bucketing down with rain, and we had to buy some awesome umbrellas as we had failed to bring our own, but even so the views and castle were just amazing. Lots of photos (see the new album) which pretty much speak for

Coffee Machine 3 - Joe 0

2008-05-13T17:49:00.001-07:00

Hi GuysWe've stolen some internet from someone in Becky's building. So this post is brought to you with help from megumi, who doesn't secure their wireless connection. Yay! >:DSo Sushi the other night was good times. I just ordered what ever Ryota had. Which was a few orders of various raw fish, some eel, some shrimp and some miso soup. All quite delicious.Kazu and Ryota are quite funny. Becky

if you're reading this..

2008-05-12T17:42:00.000-07:00

You should do two things1 - notice that we have added a link on the side that takes you to our picasa photo albums where you can see a bunch of pretty pictures of our travels :)2 - subscribe to this blog so that when we update you are notified. We're not going to email you all everytime we update it!!Went out to dinner last night with Kazu, Becky and Ryota, yummy sushi goodness! Photos up.Today

I saw a snake

2008-05-12T00:48:00.000-07:00

It is day 3 of our trip and we're not crazy yet...Picking up where Joe left off, we jumped on a bus ride out to Sannomiya Station in Kobe, a 70 minute ride that took us past 2 ferris wheels and the Sega building (Joe was so excited).It was so so tiring though, after the longhaul flight i just wanted to sleep, or eat then sleep..We met up with Becky after a bit of a wander outside the station in

wa-ka-ri-ma-sen

2008-05-10T02:25:00.000-07:00

Phew we have made it!Hi Guys and Mum and Dad :DI can't speak on Jen's behalf but i have been pretty excited. Everything seems to make me laugh. From the talking escalators to the awesome monorails that take you to bagge claim :DI'm suffering a little bit of culture shock after having only glanced at the phrase book in the last half hour of the flight. So i have two phrases so far. Konechi-wa and

I Can Blog Too

2008-05-08T16:57:00.000-07:00

Woot, First post. Thanks for the ad.kthxbye :)

T minus 18 hours 19 minutes

2008-05-08T05:41:00.000-07:00

It's 12:41am and I just created the promised travel blog. Our first flight is tomorrow at 7pm... We're not yet packed, but we have all of the other requirements sorted:visa (boo ya!)passportsyeneurosa few british poundslonely planet guidespineapple lumps and 42 below for our adored hosts in Japanmarmiteprobably far too many items of clothing but ehI'm sure we will suddenly remember something