The Russian weather has arrived. Hasn’t snowed like this in London in God knows how long.
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Got back from Sardinia a week ago. Nash & Johnny had chosen it as the location for their wedding, and I don’t think they could have chosen a more beautiful place for it. It was a bit of a working holiday though as I had said I would do the photography for the ceremony. Wedding photography is hard work, especially when wearing a suit in 30+ degree weather. I was dripping sweat into the Mamiya whenever I changed a roll. 23 rolls of 35mm, 15 rolls of 120 and about 150 random digital shots, so I’ve got a lot of scanning and Photoshop work ahead of me. The ceremony itself was stunning and the party was great. All-in-all a wonderful experience I’ll never forget.
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For our anniversary I took Emma away to Prague for the weekend. We flew out on Saturday morning and flew back in on Sunday evening, so it was a very quick weekend indeed. Prague was absolutely beautiful, made even more so by the stunning weather. I’ve never walked as much as we did on our first day there. We basically walked around nearly the whole city twice, not to mention walking all the way up to the castle towards the end of the day when we were already half dead. Prague itself is a really nice city with a lot of old charm. I didn’t rub the statue on Charles Bridge which legend says if you rub you’ll be destined to return, but even so, I can certainly see myself returning one day in the future.
Read MoreEmma and I went up to Scotland for the weekend and even though I was ill with a cold I managed to do the long drive there and back. We rented a beautiful cottage about an hour out of Edinburgh for a few nights. The scenery was really great and the weather was good, although pretty cold, so much so that the roads were frosted over in the evenings and mornings.
Went drove into Edinburgh on Sunday and went down into Mary King’s Close which is basically a preserved section of the old Edinburgh beneath the main streets and buildings that are there today. It was amazing to see how people lived only a few centuries ago and it made me glad that I didn’t have to live back then. Maybe a few centuries from now people will think the same about how I live today!
As we were coming back down on the Monday we didn’t have time to do much but we managed to take a look at the harbour in St Abbs and go on to Roslyn Chapel where Darren Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code ends. I had only seen the film and the building wasn’t what I expected at all. For a start it was a lot smaller and a lot more bare. As far as chapels go though it was very nice. The stone work was pretty impressive too.
All the trip photos are here.
