mybigadventures.com

Well I thought it was about time I made a few improvements to the website aesthetic as its looked a bit stuck in the past for quite sometime - some might argue, since its inception. The black is gone, as has most other colour replaced by a lot of white open spaces. Hopefully it looks a little cleaner and still remains easy to navigate. There have also been a few updates in the background to help things run more smoothly and a few more features from the old site have been converted to now work in PHP. There's still a lot to do but it is certainly the most significant update the website has had in a good few years.

In other news we went to Kew garden yesterday. The weather was nice and sunny if a little cool in the breeze at times. Fiona came to meet us so we had a good catch-up. Everywhere is starting to look a lot more green and colourful now that the flowers are starting to come out and it's beginning to feel quite summery. Here's hoping the weather continues - I'm pretty sure I saw an article last week promising a three month heat wave, so here's hoping!

It's been a busy time at school on the lead up to Easter getting all the work finished including over the break itself. Both Dani and I were in with year 11, 12 and 13 students for revision and coursework completion sessions. Now that we're back after the break, we're entering the exam season at school. A lot of deadlines are looming for entry of coursework marks and it's not long before year 11 are sitting their first exams.

With the summer getting closer we've started to think about the break and what we might get up to. We're not sure yet but have started to go back through the journal we kept on our Europe trip to give us some ideas, so I guess we shall see.

Hopefully I should get a few more updates on before the summer. There's still a lot of the album functionality that doesn't work from an admin perspective. I can't upload new photos to the site yet. Keep checking back though and feel free to look though the archives where most of the content currently resides. 

. . . . at just 40sk (or 80 pence to the rest of us) is Bratislava home of the cheapest 0.5L of beer in Europe? Bratislava has been great, would definately recommend it. Not silly cheap but certainly a lot cheaper for some things. We found a little internet cafe on our travels today and so you can now find the remaining Vienna pictures that were missing from the last post.

      

You will now also be able to find pictures from our time in Slovenia - another fantastic city! Tomorow we travel to Budapest at 7.09am so its going to be a bit of an early one in the morning. Not much other news really . . so will leave it at that . . . oh found a shop called 'troll' so will be emailing the picture to a couple of people from work sometime soon . .right thats really it, think there's someone waiting to get on the internet, cheerio ta ta

OK so we didn't quite meet him, but we went to mass with him on Easter Sunday and he waved to us . . . and the other thousands of people all there to say hello.

          

We've had quite a busy week all in all, we made it to Pompeii (there are some pictures under big adventures on the right), and then travelled back up to Rome which is where we have spent the last few days. We've seen lots of sights including the Colusseum and Vatican City although the real highlight had to be seeing the pope on Easter Sunday. We travel again tomorow this time to Florence where we'll be spending a few days visiting Florence and the surrounding area. I think we're at a camp site for this one which should be interesting. Unfortunately my time is about up on the internet so going to have to cut this short.

Hope everyone else had a fantastic Easter, I'll try and get some descriptions up of the pictures soon (thanks Jim for pointing that out), and tell you a bit more next time, until then . . . ciao!