Six years

Today is our six year anniversary of living in London. We never expected to be here this long. When we first arrived we had no kids, we weren't married, we didn't have jobs - we were (relatively) young and were looking forward to exploring Europe.

How things have changed.

We're married, have a family, have jobs and haven't been to Europe for well over a year.

For this anniversary I thought we'd provide a little photographic journey of the past six years...

September 2006, Our haunted house accommodation in Coventry, during our homeless days when we moved from hostel to hostel

September 2006, still in our homeless days, this time in Brighton

Christmas 2006, our first winter Christmas

January 2007, Prague, our first European trip

February 2007, Brussels

March 2007, Punting on the River Cam, Cambridge

April 2007, Rome for Easter

April 2007, Gallipoli, ANZAC day dawn ceremony 

July 2007, more sun, this time in Cannes

March 2008, Amsterdam

March 2008, St Patrick's day in Dublin

April 2008, Venice

June 2008, New York

July 2008, Enjoying the sun in Alicante

July 2008, More sun in Alicante

December 2008, Christmas in Bath, with a trip to Stonehenge

December 2008, Christmas in Bath

January 2009, Berlin

February 2009, Can't think where or when this was, or what I was doing on my knee

January 2009, Brandenburg gate, Berlin

May 2009, Sun and a beach in Cornwall, UK

May 2009, Cornwall

July 2009, Rye

October 2009, Malaga

February 2010, York

May 2010, Copenhagen, after the marathon

May 2010, Copenhagen

September 2010, Berlin marathon

July 2010, Paris

October 2010, Sifnos, Greece

October 2010, Greece

October 2010, lunch in Greece

October 2010, another photo from Greece, probably our favourite trip

October 2010, Lake District

December 2010, Brugges

December 2010, a white Christmas in Cardiff

February 2011, trams in Lisbon

April 2011, up the Eiffel tower, rather than 'Cheese' I said, 'Jackie's pregnant'

April 2011, finished the Paris marathon with dad

July 2011, Bournemouth, Jackie's looking a little round don't you think?

September 2011, Nottingham marathon

September 2011, Nottingham

October 2011, ummm

October 16 2011, best day ever

March 2012, we have managed a few trips home too. 

March 2012, meeting the family in Dunedin

September 2012, what are you looking at!?

It's been a great six years, who knows what the next 6 hold?

London Olympics 2012 ix

It was the last day of the Olympics and a beautiful warm day. After our big day at the Olympic Park Jackie and Theo decided to stay at home and take it easy. I was up for one more day of excitement watching the men's marathon.

I took the same route as we used to get to the women's marathon and headed straight to our secret viewing spot on top of the Walkabout pub. It wasn't so secret any more. It was quite busy but I was still able to get a pretty good view as the men ran past.

As I was on my own and a bit more mobile without a pram I decided to move around  bit to get closer to the action. The atmosphere was great again, the weather helped and I think there were a lot of people that were out to celebrate one of the last events of the Games.

Watching the runners certainly made me want to do another marathon, I've missed the ballot for the 2013 London marathon so might have to try and find another one to do.

View from on top of Temple Walkabout

Different spot, looking over the river, this is a big hoarding placed over a building, I think this was placed for the Jubilee. 

Cameras at the ready

Looking back at my original viewing spot above the Walkabout bar

The leader

A panorama shot on the way home, overlooking the Thames