I left home bright and early Friday morning - my first hop was just up the road on a #8 bus, but every journey has to start somewhere. I thought I had most of my prep done - bag was largely packed - but somehow I was up very late Thursday finalising everything. I didn’t want to leave any perishables behind, so that included eating the two oranges I had left, a half bag of popcorn, a litre of ice cream and drinking the most expensive bottle of beer I’ve had in a while - its a collab between 8 Wired and Small Gods called Desperate Glory, a Belgian sour brown ale aged for a year in bourbon barrels and then blended with Chinese Keemun tea. Not a beer to drink in a hurry, so I sipped away at it as I enjoyed the last episode of Shogun (a bit anti-climactic after the trauma at the end of #9.
Safe travels Barry!