I tried to purchase U2 tickets to their Wembley gig back in March however after spending much of the morning on the Ticketmaster website while at work I had absolutely no luck. I was devastated. But there was no way I was missing this, I jumped on eBay and started bidding away to secure some tickets and it wasn’t long before I had won myself an auction, even though I paid over double the cost price for them. It was a long wait but eventually a week before the concert I received the tickets and finally the big day was here. Both Hannah and I took the day off work and I convinced her to line up in the early morning and queue all day to get the best spot. We drove to Wembely Stadium early ... read more

Since I wasn’t really doing too much for my birthday this year, Hannah and I decided to do a London sightseeing tour which I had wanted to do for a while, the Fat Tire London bike tour. Hannah’s brother, Matthew also came along as he was staying with us for a few weeks. We headed into the city and made our way to the meeting point where already there were quite a few people waiting around for the 11AM tour. It turned out that quite a lot people had pre-booked which meant it was more than likely we wouldn’t be able to do the tour this morning. We waited and waited for bookings to show up but no-one did, which luckily meant they had free spots for us. We followed our tour guide across the road ... read more

Over the last few weeks the English winter was beginning to get colder and colder. We woke this morning to find our backyard totally covered in snow and it was falling very heavily. I was stunned, I had never seen fresh snow so thick and it was throwing it down with more. I jumped out of bed and ran outside to check out the street, absolutely everything was white, totally covered in snow. I was starting work late this morning but it wasn’t long before I received a message on my phone from the boss, saying don’t bother coming in to work today, apparently all of London was buried in snow. It was said to be the heaviest snowfall in over 20 years, it was so deep, it was difficult to pick which car was mine. ... read more

29/12/2008 - Since Hannah and I both had quite some time off work over Christmas and New Years Eve we decided to head across to Paris for the New Year Celebrations. We made our way to St. Pancreas train station in London and caught the Eurostar train straight into the centre of Paris. The trip took almost two and a half hours, most of which was spent sleeping. We arrived in Paris in the early afternoon and once there we queued for metro tickets to get to our hotel. Suddenly I heard my name being called, I turned around to find Cath and Michelle from our Topdeck tour, standing right behind us. After a brief catch-up we decided to meet up with them on New Years Eve to Celebrate, we got our metro tickets and made ... read more

18/10/2008 - It was Hannah’s brothers 21st birthday coming up and to surprise him we arranged to visit for the weekend in Poitiers where he was studying. It wasn’t something that we really planned to do beforehand, it was all quite last minute, but since Hannah’s dad was paying for flights and hotel for us we couldn’t resist. We took a day off work and flew into Poitiers where we met up with Hannah’s parents. They drove us to Matthew’s accommodation where we all said hello and happy birthday before heading out for dinner to celebrate. There were quite a few of us consisting of mostly family and Matthew’s Uni friends and we all ate and drank ourselves silly. After eating dinner Matthew and his Uni mates headed out for drinks, Hannah and I were so ... read more