Good news everyone, on June 20th I got married to Jiajia Cui in Pruhonice Park. It rained only half an hour before the ceremony (which was held outside), but thankfully it stopped just in time and there was even a bit of sun at the end.

Happily, there were no surprises. All the hard paperwork has been done beforehand thanks mainly to Matej in Prague and Jiajia’s mother in China. At the right moment, we both said yes, or to be precise I said “ano” and Jiajia said “是的”.

Thanks to everyone who could come. Bigger thanks to my parents for the lunch and the party in the evening.

Click the picture for more (about 40) photos of the ceremony. I have many more and if anyone wants some pictures they can just email me.

A nice four day walk (Me, Jiajia, Matej and Rachel).

Life is good on the south coast of England.

Regardless of what the weather in the photographs looks like, we had to give up even before climbing Castor because the weather was too bad.

Big thanks to Becky, Helena and Tony for making my manic London-Scotland trip possible.

A Saturday trip to the Peak District made me finally accept that life in London might not be that bad. A leisurely start at 7am, a massive breakfast at Grindleford station cafe made for a very civilized start of the day. Some local knowledge obtained from friendly climbing shop in Hathersage pointed us to Lawrencefield, which was getting plenty of sun and was shielded by trees from the wind.

There were no other climbers there, so we could do the most popular routes without any trouble.

There’s not much time or scope for big outdoor adventures, unfortunately, even though English countryside can provide some taxing expeditions like the Brighton to Lewis walk:

I have since been to Edinburgh and did a short walk in Pentlands, which just made me miss Scotland even more, because the weather was lovely, if a bit windy.

I also went to Prague with JJ for Christmas, where we had time for some skiing and ice-skating.

Some photographs of my commuting bike being built: