For New Years Eve, 2007, Claire and I were lucky enough to be in the stunning city of Venice, Italy. We spent the night at Piazza San Marco watching a spectacular array of fireworks before negotiating crowds to (somehow) find the way back to the hotel.

Happy New Year! (More photos on Flickr)

Ironically, the dazzle of fireworks was drowned only by the light of mobile phones capturing every second of the event...Â