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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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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A few weeks ago I saw Alicia Keys at the o2 Arena. I’m certainly no fan but Gemma bought the tickets and was very eager to see her perform live. It turned out that she had booked two seats in the block that overhangs one of the entrances onto the Arena floor. This meant that although we were sat in row H our seats were in the front row. We had an excellent view and plenty of leg room to boot (pun intended)!

Alicia Keys was excellent and performed many of her latest songs and a few classics that even I felt the need to sing along to! The only thing I found slightly annoying was the lone dancer jumping around like he owned the stage. Very distracting and something akin to one of your drunk mates getting up on the podium late one night and making a fool of himself. Fortunately for us he wasn’t on stage for every song!

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Last weekend we bought a travel card each and made our way into London. The first port of call was Covent Garden and Navajo Joe, a funky Mexican restaurant we have been to before. They serve excellent food and even better cocktails, the mojitos went down exceptionally well! Quite a few drinks later we travelled to Waterloo and collected our tickets for the London Eye. Below are some of my favourite photos I took on the day.

We went on at half seven when the sun was beginning to set and as a result saw some spectacular views. You get an awesome 360 degree panoramic view of the entire capital and can see many of Londons famous landmarks including the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, BT Tower and the Gherkin.

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I found out yesterday that tickets were still available to see Razorlight at the o2 Arena. In a single spontaneous moment, Gemma and I decided to buy two tickets and travel into Greenwich later that day to see the concert. We got an excellent pair of seats, a few blocks back, just six rows from the front.

The first support band was already playing when we entered the arena but to our disappointment the sound quality was quite poor making it difficult to determine what the lead vocalist was actually singing. It’s a shame because both support bands, The Airborne Toxic Event and Howling Bells were very good and certainly knew how to warm up the crowd.

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