Here comes the bride....

The happy wedding of Maria and Nano.
Last week we dashed off to Spain for the weekend to go to Elena's Cousin's wedding...
A great night, with superb food and lots of dancing... wrapping up around 6am in true Spanish style.

It was such a brief visit there's not much more to say so here are some pics.
As millions of photos will soon arrive from the many many digital cameras present on the night, this blog may grow somewhat over the next week or so.. Hopefully with some nice proper shots of the bride and groom together...(we only have this one above)

L-R: With Aunts and Uncles, With Blanqui and Abuela, Paty, Cris y Adriana









Ivan and Nacho (new best friends?), Javi y Laura, Cousins table 3




Javi and some drunk, The Boys (Jorge, Emilio, Pablo, Jesus),
With Emilio, Javi y Alfonso, With Maria
The beautiful bride having fun, Maria y Ivan,

Emilio, With Jesus, Alex and Jorge
Roberto's ok, 'Born in the USA' dance (the new wedding tradition?),

Jesus and Emilio let loose, Tango Alfonso,

and.... we need catch the plane home in a few hours!

St Patricks Day

Today was St Patricks Day... so, as nubies to Dublin, we headed in to the city to see the St Pat's day parade... it was a "warmish" sunny day with thousands upon thousands of happy green people in the streets of dublin. Sadly, only one of us actually saw anything of the parade but took photos
as evidence to show the other... like an almost real-time slideshow of the action... proving that there was something out there after all. Not entirely true.. she did actually catch a glimpse of the more enormous floats as they went past, like the enormous gold pig (see below)...which was particularly hard to miss.

This year's parade theme - The sky's the limit

The masses gather and thicken









This nerdy scientist float claimed "will do science for food", fantastic bird (by far the best in show), fun caterpillar and snail and an enormous gold flying pig for some reason.
We decided to leave St Pat's night in Dublin to the Irish.... and headed home with the families...

The night looked like it was going to start early..

left over snow photos...

More snow, better snow...
We wanted to share these snow pics with you, though they were taken weeks ago and the snow has completely gone for good now..
but we just loved the snow when it was here... and can't help but add these few more pics to the blog.
We are now into decidedly warmer sunnier days... which is nice :)

The local sorroundings in snow..

In the last days of the snow, we went for a drive in Co. Wicklow though the mountains to catch the best snow we could, while it lasted... and it was well worth it..


Checking out Russborough House
Driving through the Wicklow Gap.

stuff...

brief update... too slack or busy to update blog recently and not all that much happening anyway

most recently:
- not snowing anymore
- weather warming bit by bit, we even have some really lovely sunny days (though not today)
- minding Leonora the cat for a few days
- finished knitting Ivan's scarf last night

mmm, that might be about it.
even on the other side of the world, life isn't all travel and exotic tales.

catch you soon!

SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!

Yes, we have SNOW!!!
It may be causing accidents and traffic delays here and huge huge problems in London (lots more snow there).... but we're just enjoying the beautiful whiteness of it all...
at the moment there's snow on the ground, has recently snowed and before that, it rained.... so it could be a bit of a mess today.... but here are some snaps from yesterday.. :)
A very stark comparison to the recent heat of Melbourne ...

Our tree, the park etc..









A very Christmassy log...









Ivan coming home in the snow...
and... Out in the snow last night

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and... just for fun, some great snaps of the deep deep snow and creativity in London...

And for completeless sake... the rest of the photos from Spain.
why not..? They're of the snow too anyway

-Driving back to Madrid (from Oviedo) through the beautiful mountains...

The most beautiful petrol station in the world?

Coming soon: 2 Peas in a pod?: Ivan and his identical twin... Stay tuned....