So a big fun filled weekend just passed, despite the fact that i was in various states of soaking wet for most of it-! Sat. Night me and Ruby went to Taste Of London, basically like summerlicious back home but there is also actually a bunch of pavillions at regent park to taste food and drink.. towards the end biblical level rain... yay! Food was great, didn't get to try out as much as we would have liked, could definitely do a whole day there / 2 meals-- was getting pretty damn hammered towards the end too from all the free tastings and stuff. Had one of the best mojitos eVar ... mmmm... rum ...
Sunday, went to Goodwood Festival of Speed ... that one was rainy from that start... and muddy as fuck-! Really kind of put a damper on the day as most of the grounds were dirt so it was a big dirty muddy mess- didn't stay that long and missed out on a few cars that I really wanted to see- also stayed off the actual hill as our shoes were getting ruined just fine walking around the paddock- phooey! Did get to see some really cool bio concept cars, some F1 cars, and a bunch of exotics- most of the WRC paddocks were empty alas, but did catch a few rally cars here and there... bailed on the Supercar area and missed out on some nice ones in there as well, ah well- next time I'll save my £s and go to motoGP or F1 silverstone instead-
Monday took work off to go to wimbledon-!! Lined up at 4:00am and ended up getting Court 1 Tickets! Awesome seats a few rows back, first match was Andy Rodick, and second match was Justine Henin, noice! Last match was supposed to be Blake, but (of course) on and off rain all day long meant long delays and at one point we were pretty close to them cancelling the matches altogether- Wimbledon is definitely a first class operation, tons of staff, not too crowded, super well organized. I wish those guys would run personal banking and broadband internet here ... =( Rodick match was awesome and could have been very tense if Gimblestob had won the second set, also had the classic longest deuce evar (at least 8 times-!) .. Henin match was a typical 1st round n00b slaughter, but entertaining (and briefly sunny!) nonetheless.Damn you soggy Britain. Damn you all to hell. Click for PICS ..
