Italy

My wife Ali and I have just arrived home from our 25th Wedding Anniversary holiday in Italy and what a time we had.

Great scenery, great romance, great food and wine, great people, great culture, well what more can I say - apart from an exceptionally great experience all round.

Check out some of our favourite Photo's that we took, which we believe encapulates our time spent in Rome, Florence, Seina, Pisa and not to forget our luxury Tuscany Villa set in the Chianti wine region.

25th Wedding Anniversary - Party

Last night we held a party at the local village hall with family and friends to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary.

We had over one hundred guests turn up, which was fantastic. The food and disco were superb and I believe that a great time was had by all,

Ali and I would sincerely like to thank everyone who bought us presents and cards, but truly the best gift was just having some really fantastic people around to help us celebrate the occasion.

The photo above captures us at the end of the evening about to release a handful of silver balloons left over from the evening into the night and making a wish together.

Isn't that romantic......

25th Wedding Anniversary

Today it's our 25th Wedding Anniversary

Like many other people who've been married for this amount of time, we've had our 'ups and downs', but doesn't everyone. On the whole however we've had a pretty fantastic marriage.

This Saturday (25th July) we are having a party with all our family and friends to celebrate this milestone, then in September we are heading off to Italy for a romantic holiday - we can't wait.

As you've probably noticed I've included a nice picture of some Roses. My sister Bev bought us these from Hampton Court Palace. They're actually named the "25th Wedding Anniversary Rose" - How appropriate.

It's the second Rose bush that we've received as a gift, (maybe someones trying to tell me something?) See my post titled 'contemplating'.

Today I'm shopping with my wife in Norwich (why change habits of a lifetime.) I'm looking to buy her a little gift for putting up with me for all those years, so it's got to be something pretty special.

I'll post later what I came up with!