Photos are available to buy!

Steven has now uploaded the best 200 or so photos from the day to his site on photobiz, at:

http://sdavidson.photobiz.com/cart/
Login with 'lisaal', and you can order prints of any of them in a load of different sizes.

Yay!

Best Photos are up on Flickr

Steven the photographer, bless 'im, took about a thousand photos on the day (literally!) so we whittled it down to 250 or so, then picked the best of the best, and uploaded them to Flickr.

They're all here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/drsnooks/sets/72157619898367563/

Madrid Agenda

Here are the rough details for Madrid, we will be updating this over the next few days with more information.

Flight details:

Meet at Gatwick around 5ish
London Gatwick (South) To Madrid (Terminal 1) Fri 24 Apr 19:20
Madrid (Terminal 1) To London Gatwick (South) Sun 26 Apr 20:50

Airport to Hotel
We will get taxi's from airport

Hotel
Hostal Continental
LOCATION

Friday night Dinner
Dinner at a restaurant, TBC

Friday night clubbing suggestion:
Shabay Club

Saturday day free:
Eat/drinks and shops.
Eat: C/Cava Baja is a small street with restaurants of very typical spanish food.
Shops: for shoe addict head to Street Augusto Figueroa, in the heart of Chueca.
Drinks:
And a sneaky snooze before going out.

Saturday dinner:
9.00pm Dinner at Gula Gula
Buffet with cold dishes for 25€, or
A menu with hot dishes 25€.
Or the combination of 1 hot dish + buffet for €30
Drinks are not included. (each person can decide once we get there)
LOCATION

Saturday night Club:
11pm Gabanna
LOCATION

Saturday night Late night food:

churros con chocolat

Other suggestions:

Museo del Jamon (for Sarah's hanging ham request!) Sandwiches are around €5.

Chocolatería San Ginés, Pasadizo San Ginés

Location

Tourist suggestions:

- Museo del Prado

- Palacio Real

- Parque del Retiro - great for everyone to go lounging in the sun, ice-creams, walks and rent boats. Oh and there's apparently a statue of Lucifer - supposedly the only public statue of the devil...!

Sunday
TBC

We're going to Thailand!

....to the Amari Vogue Resort in Krabi.

OK, so Tub Kaek beach is not quite as spectacularly stunning as Railay beach, but it's only a short boat ride to the jaw dropping limestone cliffs, and I'm sure we'll get some climbing done here and there...

Parking - and the lack thereof

If you're thinking of driving right down to the venue - parking is extremely limited and correspondingly expensive in central London, but here's a list of parking sites near the Registry Office.

An alternative, especially if you're driving down from the North, would be to park in the back streets near our flat - which is convenient for the A1, and most of those roads either side of the High Street are unrestricted on a weekend.

You can then walk to the tube (East Finchley station - 5 mins), where you can get the Northern line to Kings Cross and then the Circle or Metropolitan lines to Baker Street.

Cake!

We've decided on the cake - a four-tier Cortina sponge from Patisserie Valerie.

It'll have vanilla sponge, white chocolate cream, strawberries and raspberries, plus a layer of raspberry coulis, all covered in white chocolate.

Oooh yeah.....

...and a jolly good time was had by all!

Karters
Originally uploaded by Dr Snooks

The stag do was fantastic - this photo only shows about half the people who came along at various stages.

Honeymoon Gift List

Well, the Sardinian villa fell through - the agent mailed us to say "I just got an email from the owner, and it's not available on those dates anymore - sorry!"

So it's back to the drawing board on the honeymoon.

We were also looking at our Amazon gift list and thinking "hmm, all the things we have on here are a bit on the expensive side..." so we now have a honeymoon gift list set up on Responsible Travel - at http://www.responsibletravel.com/giftlistlisaandalistair. Yay!

If you do make a contribution to the honeymoon, please use the voucher code WGL09ADLW so they give it to the right couple!

Preem restaurant booked for the stag do!

We have a reservation at Preem restaurant on Brick Lane for Sat 21st March at 6:30 !

Amazon Gift List

...is here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wedding/RK3VLZEAJ89H

Map of the day

Here's a
google map of all the relevant places for the day:

Cake?

I'm toying with the idea of cupcakes.....?

but maybe fiddly and nothing to cut, but looks rather pretty, will need to get cake boxes...

Or just a cake, with tiers that you can cut....

Any one know a good baker or patisserie?

Lisa's Hen Weekend

Hen weekend will be in Madrid!! yippee

Here are my flight details and dates:

London Gatwick (South) To Madrid (Terminal 1)
flight 5481; dep. Fri 24 Apr 19:20
arr. Fri 24 Apr 22:45

Sunday 26 April
Madrid (Terminal 1) To London Gatwick (South)
flight 5480; dep. Sun 26 Apr 20:50
arr. Sun 26 Apr 22:15

Will be flying out with Erika, Shaun, Saash and Leon...let us know if you want to meet in Gatwick

Accomodation wise:
Shaun, Saash, Erika and I are looking for hostels - nice ones with ensuites for 33 euros a night
But if anyone wants to stay somewhere else, you're welcome to and we'll make sure you know the address of where we're also staying so we'll in the same area.

People who have confirmed and booked:

Saash
Shaun
Erika
Sarah
Aoife
Leon
Ellen
Jude
Jeanne
Mimi
+ Me

Shaun will be in touch to see who wants a hostel room or wants to book their own place

I expect this weekend to be a pretty laid back affair, no rush no strain, sleep in, shop, museums, siestas, wine, tapas....no itinerary other than meeting for dinner, drinks and partying in the evenings...!!

Looking forward to it! xxx

Als Stag Do

So the stag do is Saturday 21st March.
It's early, but Dunc's move to Aiya Napa (Yay for Dunc!) and various people's availability dictates.

The plan is something like this - I'll fill in more details nearer the time:

1-2	Meetup at Kings Cross
3pm sharp	Go Karting in Tottenham Hale
6:30pm	Eat at Preem restaurant, 120 Brick Lane, E1
8:30	Sohoho Comedy Club
12-ish	Go to a club - The Borderline (£7 in), for that authentic "Tuesday night at Klute" retro indie feel :)
2-ish	See who's still standing, go to Bar Italia for coffee + more drinks or go home if incapable...

Go-Karting is BOOKED

Don't forget to budget for drinks and travel - £8 for a tube travelcard, but the tube stops at 12:30 so we'd have to get taxis back afterwards.

Hotels

There's a Holiday Inn just off Oxford Circus with rooms at £96 for a twin (2 singles), so if those who are travelling down don't mind sharing, that's £48pp.
Travelodge in Euston has double rooms for £86.

There may be cheaper hotels around, but these are a decent balance between price and distance.

We bought the rings!

Lise has a 2mm platinum band in a medium court profile to match the engagement ring, Al has a 5mm palladium flat court band.

Hotels Near the Wedding Venue

I thought I'd post a Google Map showing the hotels nearby, so here it is:


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Half-price rooms at the Hilton Metropole Hotel!

My Mum tells me that the Hilton Metropole Hotel (which is just around the corner from the wedding venue) has a half-price room deal on the wedding weekend! She got a double room for £69 per night, which is not bad at all for a 4-star hotel in the vicinity of Baker Street.

Here's a map - the Registry Office is pretty much where Baker Street meets Marylebone Road:


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