Just married

After just over 3 and a half years, Libby and I were married on 30 June in Middleton, near Pickering in North Yorkshire. We had an absolutely amazing day, surrounded by close family and good friends, despite the rain that came shortly after the service and persisted all afternoon and evening. We have just returned from our honeymoon, a walking holiday in Italy's Umbria hills with a couple of days by the coast on the Portofino peninsula. Female readers will be interested to know that Libby almost dropped her breakfast on the floor when she realised we were sitting on a table next to the actor Colin Firth in a hotel in Camogli. For those of you saying "Colin who?", he starred in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and film Bridget Jones's Diary, among other things (hence the female adoration). I, of course, didn't bat an eyelid... (ahum...)

Back in Copenhagen we heard screams from our flat window yesterday afternoon when the normally jolly and touristy Nyhavn was suddenly hit by a freak thunderstorm. It came from nowhere (seemingly out of the clear blue sky) and lasted just 2-3 minutes but with very sudden and torrential rain that seemed to stop and clear just as fast as it appeared. I have never seen anything quite like it but the silver lining was that it dispersed the crowds and stopped (if only temporarily) the very dodgy band that was playing "classic Danish tunes" as part of the city's ongoing Jazz Festival... Nice...