Apparently the average cost of a wedding in the UK is now over £27,000. That's twenty-seven-thousand-english-pounds. That's pretty much bang on the average salary for the UK, which is a huge amount of money to spend on one day. Needless to say, our wedding did not cost anywhere near that. In fact, according to my … Continue reading How to get married when you’ve got no money
So I said in part 2 that seeing Dubrovnik was one of the highlights of our honeymoon in Croatia. To be honest, the whole week was a dream and not just because it was our first holiday in 3 years. Croatia more than lived up to my expectations, and even had some surprises in store! … Continue reading Honeymooning in Croatia – part 3
So on to the fun stuff! We went with not too many plans, other than exploring Dubrovnik and getting on the water somehow. Thanks to our incredibly generous wedding guests, we were able to do much more than my frugal holiday budgets would usually allow, so we tried to make the most of all the … Continue reading Honeymooning in Croatia – part 2
Croatia has been on my holiday wishlist for a long time and I don’t remember exactly what it was that first sparked my interest, but I can thank the location scouts for Game of Thrones for helping me convince Paul that it was the place that we should go for our honeymoon. After initially planning … Continue reading Honeymooning in Croatia – part 1
Oof, long time no see. I'm writing posts but not finishing them, leaving them languishing in the drafts folder until they gather digital dust and I can't remember what the point of them was... Since I last posted, I've been busy! My least favourite state, but this is a busy period of life. We managed … Continue reading Hello, life
It is 11 days until my wedding day. After 28 years, I will cease to be an Adamson, and become a Wraight. I never thought I was so attached to my name; it’s not particularly special or rare, and there’s so many of us dotted around that there’s no chance of it dying out anytime … Continue reading On marriage, with 11 days to go
It’s too easy to stick to what you know, and we’ve found in particular that we go to the same stretches of coastline time after time. While it’s nice to know the Portreath - St Agnes cliffs like the back of your hand, there is so, so much to Cornwall that we have yet to … Continue reading Ring-around the Roseland
