Backdated Blog Entries... Venice!

"White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds, As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Venice.

Venice is divine. Anyone not impressed by this place has no heart and I'm not afraid to call it as it is.

Hilary and I stayed in a beautiful palazzo, wandered the streets aimlessly and soaked up as much as we could in our short stay.

Bellini's in Harry's bar, hours and hours in the Doge's palace learning more about the republic and shielding our eyes from gold encrusted celings.

We took the 'standup-like-the-locals' gondola ride from the fish markets and laughed at all those lovey dovey couples with their personal tenors cruising around. (Laughed in the way that only single can in such situations when we got our gondola ride for 2 euros and didn't even have to hold each others hands!)

We also had champagne is St Marks square (courtesy of Mrs Bell, thank you very much!).

More photos here.

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I am a bad blogger I know!

Its been so long since I've updated my blog that I'm suprised there aren't cobwebs all over it.

The only excuse I have - and its not a good one - is that I have been playing hard, working hard and travelling a lot and haven't had hours and hours of cruisy time left to update my poor old sad blog. Especially not when you take into account the dedication required to keep up the pre-requisite 4 nights out a week. I'm telling you, if summer drinking (magners, pimms, beer, more pimms, champagne, wine more pimms) were Olympic sports, the young men and women of London would creep the UK up the ladder for the medal tally - for silver that is. We would obviously still come in 1st.

Since my last entry, I've been to Venice, home to Oz for Lauren & Craig's wedding, I've moved into a new house in Balham (just round the corner from the old one), been to Brugge in Belgium and also back to Paris for a flying trip - all of which have photos and updates of their own to be uploaded.

Summer has been brilliant so far and with my birthday looming over me, and your well wishes flooding in I am feeling a little blown away with how lucky I am to be leading such a charmed life at the moment. I know it won't be forever, but right now its pretty wonderful and if only I could have everyone I love here with me too, things would be close to perfect.

Missing you all terribly and promising (again) to shortly update photos and stories.