Seasonal Paradise

Corfu Family Vacation

Corfu Family Vacation

Occidental Bar

Occidental Bar is the last cigar bar in San Fran. Cigar bars can't employ anyone. Only owners can work in cigar bars...as their health is under threat for working in a smokey environment.

Went with Justin Parfitt. Discovered Lagavulin Distillers Blend and enjoyed a Padron Anniversary series cigar.

Harvard Friends

Harvard Friends, on the Digital and Social Strategy course

Round The World Trip

On Sat 27th Oct Irena and I flew to Dubai for our 2nd honeymoon. We took a desert tour where we blazed over dunes and then dined under the stars while watching belly dancing and nearly having our fingers chewed off by a falcon. The highlight was sitting at the Mango Tree Thai restaurant looking out at the Dubai Fountains and up at the Burj Dubai. Later we took a tour up the Burj.

Then Irena left back to Malta, and I flew on to Sydney on Friday 2nd Nov, to speak at iDate Australia. The highlight was seeing 'School For Wives' at the Opera House, and hiking over the top of the Harbor Bridge. Tanya (CEO, Dating Factory) and I won our bet on the Melbourne Cup.

On Mon 12th Nov I flew to Vancouver to fly my mother back to the UK. My highlight was flying next to the pilot of a seaplane from Vancouver to Victoria.

On Wed 21st Nov mum and I flew back to the UK. I met up with Irena and we attended my nephews wedding at Hemswell Court. It was picture perfect.

Then on Tue 27th Nov Irena and I flew to Moscow to study AnastasiaDate. An amazing company. Our highlight was going to the Bolshoi theater and touring the Kremlin Armory where we managed to snap this shot of a 700 year old crown. ...I finally landed back in Malta on Sat 8th December.

 

Malta Hike, With Czech Hiking Club

Yup!  There's a Czech hiking club in Malta.  I took a trek out with them to the NW of the island and we had a BBQ on the beach.

Red Square

After seeing richard and tammy get married, and settling mum back into England, Irena and I took off for Moscow for a couple of weeks.

Dubai Honeymoon

"Thumb or finger, thumb or finger?"  This falcon was seriously contemplating removing a digit!  

Apparently, I was conceived in Dubai. My dad lived in Abu Dhabi for 25 years.  If I'd been born there and stayed in UAE perhaps Irena and I would look like this?   

Prior to our wedding we went on a 'pre-honeymoon' to Venice, but didn't take an official honeymoon after our wedding.  We finally took a week off to honeymoon in Dubai, prior to me flying off for iDate Sydney.  

Dune Diving In Dubai

Witness the birth of a new sport.  Dune diving.

 

Skegness Beach Skit

I stumbled upon this old video from our trip to Skegness Beach in April, 2006. It was the year after I met Irena and our first trip together to the UK. I showed her my home-town, and the best beach in England.  It didn't go so well.  Blustery and bleedin' miserable weather.  But she held up. 

  

Stormy Weather

6am, a storm brewing, and coffee in hand. Waterside in Malta.

 

Accepted to Harvard

Very happy!  I got accepted onto a Harvard Business School executive course in February.  A one week intensive entitled 'Launching New Ventures.'  I've always wondered what it would be like to study at a top tier Ivy League School, but now I can't possibly justify taking a year or two off, even if I could get in.  So this course fits perfectly, just after iDate Miami.      

I'd love to do this course on Strategic Innovation, and this course on Media Psychology.  Time will tell. Right now business is great, and clients own my time and attention.

Sasha Worm

Weekend Date With Irena

Cold Beer Tastes Best After Hiking Hot Canyons

 

Desserts at La Pergola

Wafer thin mints?

Our New Ride

We spent 6 months in Malta without a car.  Today we picked up a shiny new ride for pottering around Malta and for our 'date nights.' We like to go out a couple of times a week for date nights to different restaurants in Malta, usually in St Julians and Valletta. Now we have a fun way of getting there and back, and discovering the rest of the islands. The Honda RC30 (the race version of the VFR750) with it's single side swing arm was my dream bike when I was 18. Now, 21 years later, we picked up a VFR800. It rides like a dream, and is one of the best reviewed all-rounder bikes ever produced. 

Mark & Irenas Dad For NYE

Birthday Cigarro

Taking in my favorite Ardbeg whiskey and cigar, just prior to my
birthday, in Malta.

Barcelona (lively) Seafood

The seafood in Barcelona is great but I'm seriously considering going
vegetarian again after this little guy proved his fighting spirit and
gave me a right hook onto the nostrils. Luckily Andreas was able to
pry him away.

Kung Fu Training

Stretching before we start our kung fu training lessons. Sasha is 2. Its never too early to kick some ass.  

Kon-Tiki Museum

I remember reading and being inspired by the Kon-Tiki story, as a kid. So it was a real thrill to visit the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo in early August. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his international crew set off from Peru, and landed in the Polynesian Islands 101 days and 4300 miles later. Thor wanted to prove that Polynesia was settled by South Americans using simple balsa-log boats.

In Mdina

Irena is NOT pregnant, btw. :-) 

 

Whiskey Tasting

Whiskey tasting with mum.

Seaplane Ride, Victoria-Vancouver

We took a seaplane rides for a daytrip to Vancouver. Then learned
that two planes had crashed in the prior month. Time to do our will
(and avoid seaplane rides).

Bed Time

 

Bed Time For Double Trouble

 

Wet Feet

Mi Familia At Charles Bridge, Prague

Prague Urban Hiking

We hiked from our place in Andel, up to a park overlooking Prague. 

Sasha Siesta

Hiking In Boulder

Mirrored Lake At Kildermorie In Scotland

Fishing In Scotland

First Time Shooting