OpenIDGetting married and going travelling
It’s been a busy month. On Saturday the 5th of June I married the wonderful Natalie Downe in a beautiful ceremony at Roedean School in Brighton. The reception had owls, cheese, a ferret, a golden eagle, amazing Turkish food, Jewish chair dancing and lovely guests. It was the happiest day of my life.
The official wedding photos were taken by Drew McLellan, and there’s a Flickr group pool as well. The day after the wedding Natalie’s sister Louise took some fun photos of us running around Brighton in our wedding clothes.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with the preparations, and also to everyone who came along to share the special day with us. And a big thanks to Tom Coates, my best man.
Yesterday afternoon, we set out on our honeymoon. I’m writing this from the beach in Nice, on the south coast of France. Tomorrow we take the ferry to Corsica for a week in relative luxury. After that, we’re backpacking around Europe, then Africa, then the rest of the world. We’ve given up our flat and put our stuff in to storage, and the plan is to keep on travelling until we get fed up or run out of money. We expect to be gone for at least 18 months.
Since we’re both web developers, we’re lucky to be able to take some of our work with us. I’ll still be doing some work for the Guardian and Natalie is available for freelance work. If you have something you think we can help you with, drop us a line.
Naturally we’ll be blogging, tweeting and Flickring our adventures. You can follow our updates at http://sparkabout.net/.
That's truly awesome! Congratulations and enjoy the journey!
Krzysztof Szafranek - 21st June 2010 23:45 - #
congrats :)
alfred - 22nd June 2010 00:12 - #
Awesome indeed. Hope it's a great trip!
huxley - 22nd June 2010 00:21 - #
Congratulations to both of you!
Ronny - 22nd June 2010 01:18 - #
Congrats and stay away from the animals that can eat you please ;)
Can't wait to hear about the adventures!
Congrats and best of luck to you and Natalie. Those are some of the best wedding photos I've ever seen!
Shawn Wheatley - 22nd June 2010 04:43 - #
Congrats Simon!
Bradley Horowitz - 22nd June 2010 07:35 - #
congratulations, simon!
if you should ever get bored on your trip around the world, you could write down some recipes for the redis cookbook ;)
I don't know any of you guys, though I did see Natalie at an OGN once, however I do read your blogs. It's funny to see all these names I know converging on one occasion!
Oh, what an awesome idea for a trip. It sounds like you are going to have an insane amount of fun.
jgraham - 22nd June 2010 10:33 - #
Congratulations!
John C - 22nd June 2010 11:22 - #
Congratulations and many happy years together.
Peter van Kampen - 22nd June 2010 11:33 - #
Congrats Simon :)
iam just a regular follower of your blog.
Rama Vadakattu - 22nd June 2010 12:46 - #
Congratulations Simon. I wish you the best.
Albert - 22nd June 2010 13:18 - #
So awesome! Congratulations!
congratulation to you both !!!
Hugo Phang - 24th June 2010 09:52 - #
Congratulations
Aswath Rao - 25th June 2010 22:13 - #
Congratulations Simon and Natalie, wish you all the best.
Rayed Alrashed - 26th June 2010 11:13 - #
Congratulations guys!
Robert Nyman - 26th June 2010 19:59 - #
Congratulations! :)
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