Is anyone interested in seeing the touring production of Mamma Mia at the Bristol Hippodrome in December? I am thinking the first weekend of the month, either the Friday or the Saturday.

I have aquired myself a brother-in-law. Last week my younger, and only, sister Hannah married Stuart Munn on the Greek island of Rhodes. I flew out to the island to be a guest at their wedding. It didn’t feel very holiday like was I was only there for four nights however it was a lovely ceremony and the island itself, while excessively hot at the moment, was nice.

Stuart managed to leave the rings in the hotel room safe and had to run up many flights of stairs in order to rescue them. In 30’c heat. Just before the ceremony was due to start. Oh how we laughed. He returned saying “Don’t anybody tell Hannah, she will kill me”.

On the day before I was due to fly back to the UK my parents and I visited Rhodes town, looking around the harbour and also the old town. The Knights of St John spent over two hundred years in Rhodes and built a large castle, called the Grand Master’s Palace, next to the harbour. This building, and in fact the entire walls of the old town, were very impressive and you could imagine soldiers having sword fights on the huge marble covered staircase.

I have just got back from a short holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes. More on that later but for now I thought I would share this photo that I took while in the Valley of the Butterflies. It reminded me of the Banksy painting shown on the right.