Matt and Corina's Wedding... and Portugal.

Thursday
Went shopping in the morning for Boden and Corina's wedding present, and also bought Jen's dress she was going to wear to the wedding.

Then I went to Boden's bucks' party while Jen attended the much more civilised hen's night.

Friday
Jen bought her shoes. Then we met up with Bob and went wandering through town; randomly got free kit kats from a funny tent thing in the middle of town. Then we hired bikes and cruised through town (oh what fun that was). Jen left us and went for a walk around whilst Bob and I missioned it to Matt's place by bike. Fun for all.

Spent the evening at the pub with Boden (who only stayed for a short time, as it was the night before his BIG DAY) and Jen and Bob and Kate.

Saturday

Matt looks slightly nervous... I'm not sure why.

Boden and Corina's wedding! Started off with the ceremony in the morning, which was meant to be at 10:45am but ended up being about an hour late, because of French beurocracy. What happens is that they book about a hundred weddings all about 15 minutes apart and you get this huge lineup of all these different wedding parties out the front. Quite amusing actually. The ceremony itself was all in French and I was happy about that as I didn't end up bawling my eyes out.

All good now :)

The reception was amazing; lots of top qual champagne and wine and good music provided by a mate of Boden's called Tim. Good food, good company, and Bob made a great speech.

Sunday
Spent the day recovering. Matt and Corina had some friends around the their place for brunch/lunch/afternoon tea. It was nice and mellow, with John providing some very mellow tunes on the guitar. I sat on the couch and didn't move for a few hours.

Had dinner with Bob at the best pub in Paris (I think we'd hung out there 3 times in the last 5 days), around the corner from Boden's place.

Got home and packed!

Monday
Plane to Lisbon.

Arrived Lisbon around 5pm, and managed to get a taxi unscathed to town. Went for a wander around this absolutely fantastic city. Lots of colour, great views, lots of character. Had dinner on a hill overlooking the cool castle.

Collapsed into bed absolutely exhausted.

Tuesday
Slept in till 10am, then went down the road for breakfast. Then went home and slept for another 2 hours! Ha. Put our bikes together, and realised we need to visit a bike shop ASAP. So we've wandered into an internet cafe to find a map to one as we hadn't seen one yet. And we've ended up facebooking and blogging.