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Today. In the London underground. Yes, even ultra-rich and famous use public transport sometimes.

Well, kind of. It was his lookalike, or maybe fake Steve, or maybe his brother, apparently less harsh version of Apple CEO.

Usually I hate taking pictures of people in the public places, but could not resist this time.
Why so blurry? Taken with iPhone…

The day has finally come. After almost 2 years and 9 months of my employment with pod1 I said goodbye to my employer.

These years were truly great for me. I was lucky to work with other people, who were smarter then me and I could learn a lot from them. It was also the time when pod1 was the fastest growing agency in the industry in UK, so, as you can imagine, in many ways it was a fantastic experience. I also made a lot of friends (I believe) whom I am going to miss, again a lot…

So what’s the plan? For the next few month I see myself doing contract/freelance work. At pod1 I was the head of Front End Development team, so will happily continue cutting up HTML/CSS templates, as well as carrying on freelancing as a web-designer and developer, something I was doing in my spare time during the last few years.

I have always been enjoying being involved in the creative side of things, not just technical, so it is something I hope to be doing a lot now :)

My leaving party was great and I just want to thank everyone who joined me. See that night photos below, I picked the nicest, the funniest and probably, the least controversial ones, hehe :) And I think it was KJ, who did the most of the job of picture taking. Can’t credit myself for that :)

Yes, that’s me :) Just turned 30. Kind of old mature now. Do I feel like being 30? Not really. I am a young soul and everything is just starting for me. Watch the space ;)

The pictures below are of my birthday cake (kind of obvious). I might look a bit sad there, but it was unintentionally, but then it was too late to re-shoot - the cake was already half eaten… By the way, the cake was very nice (thanks Veronika :* ), I think back home we call it a ‘Kiev cake’. Yummy.

So yes, I have no idea who and why built this monument, and though some stones earlier were merely taken by locals for their building needs (that was the funniest fact to learn) it is still impresive. Sure, not like Piramids, but still…

Well, it took me quite a while to get the pictures from our break in Bath sorted, but here we are.

It was our usual type of getaway on Veronika’s birthday, but this time we’ve missed an oportunity to go abroad, so opted for some quite local place :) And since Veronika loves all kind of bath-beaty-therapy-spa things, the choice of destination was not a hard one.

We stayed in Bath for three nights, so had enough time not to only explore the city and surroundings, but to actually relax. Our top highlights were the visit to the Bath’s famous thermae bath spa (very enjoyable, especially the open roof top pool, highly recommend :), a trip to the Stonehenge (interesting place, though no vibes for me… probably because it was too crowded there) and visit to the Roman Bath Museum (it’s quite amazing what Roman already could do and build in those ancient times).

A quiet and friendly (still a bit buzzy) town that borders with country-side with everything within a walking distance, has a clean air and even cleaner (must be mineral one) tap water. A really nice place for retirement ;) Anyway, returning to overcrowded, busy and smoggy London felt a bit weird and wrong…

Few more pictures you could also see on my Flickr account, as well as story continues here (the next blog post).