Once in a blue moon..

...there's a perk for my work!
The company I work for held a competition between all of it's bars last year.
The bar that I was in at the time, won! Huzzah!
I was fortunate enough that although changing bars since, I was invited to share in the reward with the boys.

 We got sent to Scotland...

 To the Chivas Regal / Pernod Ricard house!

Oh.. meeee.... goodness.

One night.

2 distilleries.

2 Warehouses.

2 Tastings.

Kilts

Fiddles

 
 A fancy dinner 4 course dinner

 and a hangover to boot!
Before heading back to London, we took a leisurely stroll to the site of the first ever Glenlivet distillery.

 

 The fresh, crisp air together with the warm sun would cure any of your worries, hangover included!

Beautiful place. Would go back there in a heartbeat.

Groezzzzzmuck!

We have a LOT to catch up on!

This round, festival number two of the year.. GROEZROCK.

Myself, Wez, Paddy, Jacob and Petra dragged our tents and euros into 3 days of dust, beer, chips 'n mayo, Jager and punks into a tiny town called Meerhout.

 

First stop, Belgium station. Whoooa!

My mate Jacob has recently arrived from Aus,

we chucked him headfirst in to festival season (without a fight!)

Bounced about to a rockin' set from Bodyjar.

 We may or may not have stalked the signing tent shortly after in search of an old friend...

 The rest was a blur of German, Netherlanish jibberish mixed in with freeeeeezing nights, a giant hug giving banana, a more than brilliant set from The Hives, a bunch of sun and loads of punkrockish fun.

Amazing time. Great craic, but prob wouldn't do Groezrock again. They've got a few organisational issues. On the upside, their less than bright-spark security believed my litre of OJ was indeed just juice. Splash of vodka kept me going all day whilst everyone else soaked up the Belgian beer! Fun times.
This week, after many showers and one very muddy bath, we're off to Ireland for Wez's birthday.
Not complaining, but I'ma need a holiday from work and holidays soon!