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Can you believe it? Another year has gone flashing by again. Every day goes flying passed like crazy. It feels like not long ago I was writing the one year post. And just like my last post, for those of you not in the know, Rach and I have been together for two years today.

Two years on…

What a fantastic ride it has been and I could not have chosen someone better. Her excellent qualities make for a great companion and it’s made our time together fantastic. The last year has been so easy going and smooth sailing.

We’ve been to so many different places and many more to come. To mark the special occasion we are currently in Budapest, Hungary, off on yet another trip 🙂

To see a glimpse of what a fantastic time the last year has been click here.

Smudge

This our new house mate smudge. He is named smudge because when he first moved in he would always step in his own poo after doing the business and would smudge it all over his leg. He is about 14 weeks old. When he first arrived he was tiny and fragile but since then he has grown a bit and has started to hone his hunting skills. He has these cute little blue eyes and this tiny round circle pattern on his head. He is so playful and will pounce on anything that moves.

Sleep time

Hanging on

The little guy has already caught his first mouse, which was one of the reasons we got him.

He is very friendly and loves to be in whatever room people are in to either play around in the room or lie down on you. He loves coming into our room when we get home and loves to play underneath our bed. I think he loves all the different things to play with and he loves shoes for some reason.

Some rude individual broke gabnation earlier this morning on Monday. They wiped my pride and joy completely and of course they deleted the last full backup. Luckily I had a backup of a few things but not all hence all the missing images on this page. It’s going to take me a long time to get it back to where it was. Especially the gabnation gallery. Slowly, slowly, I hope I’ll get there. So if a photo album doesn’t work, then that’s why.

** UPDATE ** I’ve managed to get most of it back up. I’m still missing a lot of the blog images and a few albums from the gallery but apart from that it’s mostly all back.

So another year rolls on by. In previous years I’ve said that the year went quick but this year I can’t say it did. It didn’t go fast but it didn’t go slow in any way at all.

Rach and I spent New Years Eve at home… But of course our house put on a party. We thought we’d be able to see the London Eye fireworks from our rooftop but we found out at 00:00 that we couldn’t see them 🙁 So instead we watched them on a TV. I sat their it utmost disappointment and sadness watching a spectacular display of fireworks, on TV. Unlike the rest that I had seen, this display wasn’t boring. I was really disappointed that we weren’t there along the river watching them in person and soaking up the atmosphere. All I can say that is if you are ever here in London on New Years Eve, make sure you go.

Continue reading “Another year gone by”

Happy holidays and all of that stuff to you all. Most of all, I hope you’re all spending time away from work and with your families, friends and love ones taking it easy.

I’ve completed a big update to the gabnation site. I’ve changed the way the pages to work in order to make it much easier for me to update and maintain. At the same time I’ve finally got around to uploading the photos from our Europe trip and added the thumbnails for the cities and the other albums. All of the albums from now on will be added to the gabnation gallery but I’ll still add a thumbnail and link to them from within the relevant gabnation web page. The main additions are to the travel, party and events section. You can always access these by going direct to www.gabnation.com and clicking on the relevant links.

Continue reading “Woo hoo! Holidays…”

For those of you who are not in the know, Rach and I have been together for a year today. I would like to take this opportunity to say that I love her lots and to say thanks to Rachel for all of the fantastic times that we’ve had together and for the absolutely amazing things we’ve both seen and done together.

 

My Rachie

How many people do you know that can say that with their significant other, in the last year, they have seen the Eiffel tower, the Colosseum, leaning tower of Pisa and crossed through ten countries? Not many.

A year is only a small amount of time but as I see it, it’s a small step to a big plan.

To celebrate, tomorrow night we’re going on a mini cruise down the river Thames, followed by a visit to the London Eye. We’re then heading to dinner before going to the theatre to see Chicago.

It’s going to be great.

So what next for the blog? Well there’s more to come. Our adventure hasn’t finished yet 🙂 Rach and I have started to have a think about where we are going to go next. But we’ve got hurry up before summer passes us by.

Things that are in the pipeline so far:

Continue reading “So what’s next for the blog?”

10 Person Dorm

Dorm rooms. Gotta love them. Barcelona is the 3rd place we’ve stayed in dorm rooms. Dorm rooms have pros and cons. Mainly cons.

Pros:

Cheaper than a single room.
You get to meet other people from all over the world.

Continue reading “Dorm rooms”

I’ve been meaning to put this post up for a while. It’s really just a collection of useless information. To read on click here –>  Continue reading “Random bits”

Sunrise

Current we’re flying over Europe. We both had a fair patchy sleep but i think it’ll be enough to get us through the first day. We’re about 2 hours away from London. The flight has been relatively painfree. Anyway gotta run. Keep posted for more 🙂

Farewell Invitation

So Rach and I have both had our last days of work and the previous weekend we had our farewell party. Thanks to every one who came to the farewell party. Rach and I had a fantastic time. It’s always great to have all of your friends in the one room. The photos from the night are up here:

http://www.gabnation.com/albums/2006/adrianrachfarewell/

Map of Trip

The whole concept of moving to a different country for a while still really hasn’t sunk in. In 2 weeks from now we’ll be in Paris. Three weeks in Prague. It’s all quite strange really. If you click the map on the left, it will show you all the places we are heading to. As you can see where covering such a large part of Europe in a little time. We’re in a new place nearly every three days. One day on a bus, the next two travelling, and then it starts all over again. The bus will be Rach and I’s best friend by the end of the trip 🙁 Visit the itinerary page if you are unsure of what’s the name of one of the places or if you wanna know when we’ll be some where.
My head feels a little lost as I’ve still got a fair few things to do before I go but it should all be under control soon. I better get back to all of that now 🙂

I created this blog in hope that during my travels around Europe & the UK I’d keep a record of what went on. This is because I know that by the time I get home, no doubt I will have forgotten or at least forgotten to mention large parts of the trip. I think I’d also like to be able to look back at what’s on here and reminisce and laugh about my adventures. This blog will also allow me to upload and show you photos of some of the great places I’ll visit along the way.

It’s just so easy to communicate with every one via the net. Anyway, I thought this blog would be a good place to start.

Please feel free to register and submit comments. I’d love to hear from you all. Your first post will need to be approved first, so you won’t see it online straight away but from there after it will pop up straight away.

For those who care, the term blog is the short version of web log. For more info click here.