So another year passes in the blink of an eye. It's been a relatively big year for us: moving into our finished house and the overseas trip were the biggest standouts (I miss Disneyland already :(), not to mention the complete overhaul of this very website.

Here's the highlights of 2012's blog posts:

January

• New Year & Coin Collecting: I got the vasiloptia coin this year; not sure if it made a difference or not!
• The Return of a Legend: Henry: Probably one of the best Arsenal highlights of the year.

February

• Moving In: Moving into our

As with our last big holiday 4 years ago, "one of the downsides of having a non-anonymous blog is that you can't blog a lot of stuff because of it, and [before] going overseas for a few weeks is probably one of them".

Last week we got back home after spending almost 4 weeks overseas on what will probably be our last big holiday before seriously settling down (if you get my drift ;)).

Our goal for this trip was to mainly go through the US, as well as to go back to London for another Arsenal game. What … Read more →

Part of our 2012 US/UK/HK Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

Coming back from London on our way to Australia, we had planned a quick stop in Hong Kong; staying there for two nights, but really only one and a half days (we flew in on Monday evening and left Wednesday night).

Unfortunately, all we ended up seeing of Hong Kong was our hotel room and the few streets around it in Kowloon. I was slowly getting better, but unfortunately Despina was coming down ill herself. She was starting to get a temperature, and the cheap digital thermometer … Read more →

Part of our 2012 US/UK/HK Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

From New York we flew overnight into London and dropped our bags off at the hotel. We were quite buggered, but we decided to go up to Arsenal and have a look at our tile in Armoury Square for the first time. It was great to finally see it first hand. The weather was typical depressing England: cold, overcast, rainy. After that we pretty much just checked into the hotel and took it easy.

Wednesday was the beginning of a not very nice time in London for … Read more →

Part of our 2012 US/UK/HK Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

We caught the train to New York rather than fly. It was a good choice in my opinion, as it meant that we left from Union Station in Washington and arrived at Penn Station in New York; so there was no long commute out to airports, no going through rigorous security, and no waiting for bags and alike. The train was roomy, and at just over 3 hours, it wasn't a long commute at all. Plus we got to see a few cities, like Baltimore and Philadelphia, … Read more →

Part of our 2012 US/UK/HK Trip. See the explanation and summary entry.

We arrived in Washington DC on Sunday night. The landing was a bit unnerving, as the plane made a relatively steep turn not far off the ground to line up with the runway (I assume to stay out of Pentagon airspace). I've flown a fair bit, but when you can tell the make and model of cars looking down the wing at the ground during a turn at night, it is a bit unusual.

Anywho, we mainly did the typical touristy thing during our time in Washington. … Read more →