Callum & Eva's Wedding

Callum and Eva met in 2019 when Eva's band 'Charly Bliss' was playing at the Splendour in the Grass music festival. Shortly afterwards the Covid pandemic led to borders being closed, so Eva stayed in Australia, and their relationship flourished.

This blog entry is to record their wedding on Saturday October 26th, 2024.

Eva singing in Boston 

Soundtrack on Spotify

Analysis of one of their songs. 'How Charly Bliss Write the Catchiest Pop Songs Ever'

Early days

With smoke from a mozzie-coil

The Hendricks family arrived; we took them on the Twin Falls walk

Sam and Julian

Catching a waterfall

Eva's bachelorette party

Angelique, Leroy and Nadine (George's step-daughter)

Eva's niece Kinsley

Cooling sprinklers at the pub welcome party

Julian and Sam (Eva's brother and drummer in Charly Bliss)

Mount Warning from Byron Bay

Cape Byron

The view from Earth House

The fig-tree at Earth House

George, mother of the groom

The kids were supposed to sprinkle petals in a path down the lawn!

Callum, Maddie the celebrant, and Eva

The members of Charly Bliss and Callum lift the bride

Emily and Oli (my nephew)

George giving a speech

St Tropez

St Tropez lighthouse, with a photo of Brigitte Bardot 

Our friends Pedro and Tina kindly invited us to stay with them in their 'Shed on the Med' near St Tropez, on the Côte d'Azur in the south of France. The shed was originally a caravan, but had been upgraded to being a small bungalow with no wheels in sight. Many of the other vans were occupied by British expats.

Pedro & Tina

The trip from Budapest to Nice was complicated by a missed connection in Zurich, which led to us being diverted to Frankfurt and then to Nice. Along the way our luggage got lost, which took about 48 hours to sort out.

But then we had a lovely four days being shown around the playground of the beautiful people, with walks, restaurants, and a bit of boating.

Artists on the quayside with super-yachts

Superyacht

Roll your eyes if you must, but it was hard to miss the number of gorgeous women

Sandra's job was to wander through our restaurant wearing a variety of outfits

Our waitress

Tina and George rising to the competition

One of several classy restaurants

Gassin restaurant Bello Visto

The blokes got a bit of attention from the women in our party. This guy drove a ferry boat to the restaurant

George dishing up pasta

Whizzing about on a RIB

Pedro the skipper

Chess players

Arty chair designs

Pigeon posing on terra cotta

Shirt salesman

We stumbled on a wedding where the guests were assembling. They were graciously tolerant of a photographer. Here is an anthropological study of the people from the Côte d'Azur.

Flower girls