I started off my airshow season on a beautiful summer's day in London for the annual Trooping The Colour flypast. Unlike most years I had company with my lovely and long-suffering friend Hilary joining me to celebrate our passions for Chinooks & day drinking!
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| On the train |
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| Arriving into London |
After being distracted by the cute stationary shop in Victoria Station we headed down to The Mall to watch the flypast.
And to take the most epic selfie ever with the Chinooks! |
| Clearly the coolest people on The Mall |
Hilary patiently endured the next 10 minutes of my autistic info-dumping of the aircraft that were flying over us.  |
| The aforementioned Chinooks |
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| Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight Dakota |
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| Phenom & Texans |
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| Voyager & Typhoons |
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| Globemaster |
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| A400M |
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| Rivet Joint |
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| Poseidon |
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| Typhoons |
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| Red Arrows & F35s |
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| I like how the F35s are framed by the Red's smoke |
After a pit stop at the Eros statue to eat our Tesco salad bowls (lunch of kings) we went across to the Design Museum for their Wes Anderson exhibition. We're both fans of his quirky but charming films and it was really cool to see props, costumes & his drawings.
We had a walk through the lovely Holland Park before heading to Camden.
There's a vampire-themed pizza restaurant in Camden called Lost Souls Pizza that I've been dying to try (pun fully intended) for ages now and it didn't disappoint!
It's decorated with loads of cool horror-movie posters and artwork.
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| Clearly my room needs this |
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| I fit into the aesthetic very well |
The pizzas were even black!
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| An accidental sub-theme of the day was my managing to match all my drinks to my eye-makeup |
Our next stop was the decor polar-opposite of Lost Souls Mr Fogg's Botanical Tavern. There are loads of different Mr Fogg's locations across London (Vana and I went to the 'Antique Emporium last year) and it's my goal to visit all of them.
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| So pretty |
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| Not quite so pretty 😅 |
It was another decor 180 when we went down to the next door Hidden Society cocktail bar which had cosy 'old library' vibes.
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| I feel low-lighting is far fairer on everyone around me |
They had a crazy cocktail menu inspired by works of art which lead to Hilary having a tomato soup flavoured cocktail inspired by Andy Warhol's soup can paintings.
As the day drew to a close it was time to head home and leave London to it's beautiful sunset.
Thank you so much to Hilary for putting up with me for a whole day!
Now we're into the airshow season I have 2 in a row with Headcorn this weekend and Duxford's Summer Airshow next weekend. Naturally there will be aviation related spam, sorry content to follow.
Love Jen
XxxX
