The 18th December 2010 was our four year anniversary. I wanted the day to be extra special, unique, but entirely personal so decided London would be the perfect location as there are many parts we still haven’t explored. I booked a two night stay at the four star Kingsley Hotel in Bloomsbury, very near to Covent Garden where we had dinner that night. I asked for a room on the top floor, which the hotel were happy to provide. I had chocolates, champagne and fresh flowers in the room ready and waiting for our arrival. Of course, I had hoped that because it was our anniversary, Gemma wouldn’t suspect that I had much grander plans the following day.

When we arrived on Friday there was a small amount of snow still on the ground from the ‘big freeze’ a few days previous. Gemma thinks snow is incredibly romantic so I was happy with even a small amount still on the ground.

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A very happy new year to everyone! I hope that 2011 is better for you than any other year that has preceeded it. Watch this space for more articles on what I will be up to in the new year!

It’s that time of year again! To everyone that reads my blog I wish you a merry Christmas! I hope you have had an excellent year and your Christmas is filled with love, happiness and harmony.

It was my brothers thirtieth birthday on Wednesday last week and to celebrate I bought two tickets to see Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show in London at the Bloomsbury Theatre. As we left I told him that this would be an all expenses paid, all inclusive trip, of which he took great pleasure in stretching to the max. A taxi ride, train ticket, full three course meal later and we were sat in the theatre waiting for Lee Nelson AKA Simon Brodkin to walk on stage whilst drinking a, less than ice cold, pint.

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As if Bratislava (Slovakia), Vienna (Austria), Pamplona (Spain) and Cala Llonga (Ibiza) weren’t enough another trip to a random European destination had to be planned before the end of the year. This time, Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, an Eastern European country I know very little of and have never seen before. This trip made me realise how much we really take for granted. It immediately became clear that we moan at the state of our country, our roads, the traffic, the homeless, but other countries still part of the European Union have it far worse than we could ever imagine.

The streets in Bulgaria were littered with rubbish, some roads could be compared to a landfill site, I chose not to publish those photos. Being in a car was terrifying and the majority of people certainly knew how to use a horn. Road lanes, signs and signals really need not be there, in fact on our way to the airport we passed three cars driving at full speed the wrong way down the motorway!

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