This weekend we had our leaving do, a hilariously emotional affair that tied in nicely with Steve’s birthday. Nestling in between bouts of rain and gusts of wind, the weather for the actual bbq itself was beautiful, and once everybody had their beer jackets on it was pretty warm in the evening too!
Already looking forward to Musical Chairs for our return do (must retain my title) and I also think we have an entrant for Britain’s Got Talent in the contortionist category! We’d like to give a special mention to Kerry & Graham for joint-hosting the event and supplying many tables and chairs, Ryan for a stirling job on the bbq and keeping everyone fed, Rich for merrily rallying around Wiltshire to pick up my camera lens, and Michael Michael for drawing an awesome Octopus on our birthday map.
Thanks to everybody once again for the cards etc – it was a cracking way to depart, with many emotional goodbyes. Cheers… see you soon!
Introduction: Situated on the Atlantic coast in westernmost Africa and surrounded on three sides by Senegal, Gambia is twice the size of Delaware. The Gambia River flows for 200 mi (322 km) through Gambia on its way to the Atlantic. The country, the smallest on the continent, averages only 20 mi (32 km) in width.
We visited here for just a week on our honeymoon, and spent a whole three days by the hotel pool – it would have been great to relax but there’s just so much to see! The Gambia has on one side some beautiful beaches, absolute luxury, wonderful wildlife and amazing food. On the other, there is a high mortality rate, very low pay, low education, and everything else you might link to an poor African nation. However, the vast majority appreciate that tourism is one of their major incomes, and as a result are incredibly polite and friendly, and genuinely interested in you and what you do.
Here are the pics of our glorious honeymoon – on the continent of Africa which is the somewhere we won’t be getting to revisit on our trip round the world. Which is a great shame, as its an amazing place with wonderful diversity and immensely friendly people. Plus, wierdly, some of the best steak we’ve ever eaten which we didn’t see coming!
Putting this up now, four months later, reminds me we’re going to all the effort of this website… I’m starting to forget parts already! Ten years from now it’ll just be a fond blur. As long as we’ve written it down here, it’ll be something we can look back on and tell our kids about. Of course they’ll be disappointed it isn’t in 3D smell-o-vision, but they can’t have everything. We’ll be putting our thoughts on Gambia in a different post, but enjoy the photos below.
Finally! A selection of the over two thousand photos of our wedding we’ve been sent, including from the official photographer, available in one easy to digest album. If you want the “director’s cut”, then see the full 350+ photos here. There’s even talk of the thank you cards going out soon…
For those that are interested, we’re also going to let you know who the various people we worked with to help us put things together, so if you need any help with your own wedding (catering, tailors, photographers etc) then these will all come highly recommended. Continue reading Gallery: Wedding Highlights…
I’m still playing with the various methods of displaying photos on our blog, currently I am running with Picasa to manage the photos (which is a fantastic program), Picasa to sync them to the web, and then using a WordPress plugin called Shashin to actually display them on this site. It doesn’t do everything I’d like, but then nothing does, and its close enough for now!
This particular gallery represents a lot of hard work by Lynette’s dad, my dad, and allegedly myself at certain points (most recently Wednesday when the new tenant’s dishwasher sprung a leak), in refurbishing a flat we purchased to rent out and help fund us while we’re away. Its some damn fine DIY if we do say so ourselves! Now we’re just hurriedly trying to get our own house finished… anyway, enjoy, I’m still testing, lets see how good we can make this blog look.
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