A walk in romantic Prague (Engagement Part 1)

For those of you who don't know, I proposed to Naomi in Prague earlier this year. For those of you who do - here's the story once again.

So, we're both back in the UK from Australia for both of our parents birthday's at the start of March but my flight leaves a week before Naomi's which means we've only a few days overlap in the UK.

I know this is the perfect opportunity to organise a romantic proposal so I spend that week organising a trip to Prague while keeping it a secret from Naomi (or at least so I thought).

So, Naomi arrives on the Thursday and a bunch of us go out for a few drinks and Naomi knows she's going somewhere the next (Jerome - her dad - has been winding her up that it was a trip to Knock). A few beers later and as Naomi and I leave the taxi, Tim (one of my very best friends) says "Have a great in Prague". I did actually manage to convince Naomi that it was a wind up that I'd put Tim up to but that lasted another 2 hours when I foolishly blurted out whether I was going to need a certain t-shirt in Prague.

Anyway, it was never going to be a secret forever so I was pretty glad it had lasted this long.

So, we land in Prague and jump in a taxi. I give the taxi driver an address and before long we're travelling through a large industrial shopping area with massive Tesco and Next signs. I start looking slightly alarmed - Naomi starts looking incredibly worried ("the eejit's booked a dodgy hotel in the middle of nowhere, hasn't he?!").

Anyway, because we were only in Prague for one day I had to make the stop to the jewellers at this point (which, to be honest, I'd rather not have done - but hey, the story's good regardless).

Well, Naomi was getting increasingly nervous and before long, we were outside the jewellers and Naomi was stunned when the assistant recognised me and called me by name. A couple of minutes later, the ring was presented. It was beautiful and remarkably, it fitted perfectly! I say remarkably because this was something I completely forgot about and Naomi was in Australia so working it out so accurately was nothing short of a minor miracle (for which I'll accept no glory whatsoever).

Of course, a jewellery shop isn't the best of locations to pop the big question and Naomi thought she should point out that she hadn't said yes yet. I thought I should remind her "I haven't asked you yet!"