The day before the wedding was mainly spent either relaxing in the pool at the hotel or down in the town square at Bar Eugenio for lunch. We then had a party at Las Musas in the evening which went on into the morning. Photos can be found by clicking on this photo.

The food at Las Musas was excellent and Tom dragged me away from the party at about 4am. Which was probably wise. We then jumped in the pool to cool off which probably wasn’t so wise but did the trick.

Uncle Denis made it back to the hotel at about 5 after winning the dance off with cousin Paul. Rumour has it he then went for a swim but thats unconfirmed.

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We eventually got to Madrid on the Tuesday and had a couple of nights with Mum, Pat and Mike. I met up with a couple of friends from Madrid and spent most of the time having beer and tapas. What could be better.

We stayed in the Room Mates Alicia hotel on Plaza Santa Ana and I can’t recomend it highly enough. Great value for a good hotel which is in a great location. Paddy certainly enjoyed the bed on the terrace and I fell asleep on it one night too.

I finally got to see Madrid Cathederal. It’s ok but not great.

I went back to one of my favourite places in Madrid ‘La Venencia’ on Calle Echegaray. They only serve Sherry and a few olives. This is timeouts review and this is trip advisors review.

Plus I found a new cool bar courtesy of Paddy and his XDC mate from Madrid. Las Cuevas de Sesamo which is on the parallel street Calle Principe. Sangria all round.

We also ran around a few museums and I can now say with some certainty that Matisse produced a lot of crap.

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We had decided to take the car to Spain for the wedding.  Marieta flew out but Paddy, Catherine and I took the car via the Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry.

We got to Portsmouth early and saw our ferry coming into port (I knew it was ours thanks to www.shipais.com which I browsed on the phone).

Then in the queue for the ferry there was a line of Spanish minis all returning from a mini convention. Apparently there used to be a mini factory in Zaragoza.

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The 15th of May was not only Florians birthday but also the day we went to Rome for my stag do.

We went to see the Mille Miglia.

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This looks quite cool http://www.dz.ru/en/solutions/phantom/ if you find things like continuous persistance cool that is..

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This is one of my favourite public art installations. I don’t know why. I think it’s because it’s off the beaten track. the area was busier when Cream was running but these days it’s quite quiet.

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For me these were the stars of the Capital of Culture year. The Superlambananas were a lot of fun. The day before they were auctioned off most of them were herded onto St Georges Plateaux. Here are my photos of them.

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We were delighted to have my cousin Will and his wife Bethan up in Liverpool for a weekend visit. A weekend never seems like long enough!

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I decided to shoot a series of doors in Liverpool. I started with some of the doors of the old bank buildings which are really impressive but ended up wandering round some of the back streets where the doors obviously have story to them but it’s not as obvious.

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When La Machine came to town we had the best and worst of Liverpool. People really enjoyed themselves, thousands turned out to support the event and see what was going on despite poor weather.

Then we had ridiculously over officious ’security’ who were telling people that children couldn’t be carried on their parents shoulders as it was dangerous. They were threatening some people with involving the police. As if some offence has been committed. One group of people had waited for an hour and a half on a raised area and the ’security’ guys let them stay there until about 5 minutes before the spider arrived. By which point they could no longer get a decent view from anywhere. I’m usually reasonably compliant with event organisers but the guys hired by Liverpool council are tossers.

Anyway, back to the photos…

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