Last Tuesday evening I met up with Uns at Decathlon to go do a bit of shopping for some camping gear. We've been talking for sometime to go camping and figured we'll try get away next weekend but need to get ourselves sorted with some outdoor and camping gear. After getting mostly what we needed we decided to head up to Rotherhithe and try The Mayflower Pub for dinner which had some decent ratings online. It's a great little wooden framed Thames-side pub with small bar, upstairs restaurant and tables on the outside deck overlooking the river. It landed up being super busy, especially for a Tuesday night, but glad we went, as the food was good and had ourselves a nice spot upstairs with a view of the Thames.

The rest of week was fairly quiet as I wasn't feeling 100% so just kept it fairly tame and chilled out most evenings at home. Even to the point I spent Saturday at home, missing out on Si's birthday monopoly pub crawl which is always good fun. But don't think it would've done me any good going along to that! Then yesterday myself and Uns headed down to Eastbourne and met up with Haig, Caitlin and their friend Jess for the Eastbourne International Airshow, a 4-day international air show run every August in Eastbourne. The last time I'd been down to the Eastbourne Airshow was back in 2006 with Haig and Guy which turned into the infamous snakebite story after the airshow was called off due to strong winds. The weather certainly wasn't looking great yesterday morning heading out and they had predicted some rain and wind throughout the day, but we optimistically headed down. And as it turned out, we landed up being fairly lucky with intermittent spells of sunshine and only one downpour of rain which didn't really affect the show at all.

The show started off at midday with an impressive display from the Red Arrows, followed by a mix of Breitling Wingwalkers, a P-51 Mustang, a RAF Chinook, a Spitfire, the Vampire's as well as a RAF Search and Rescue display. Unfortunately due to the weather the Lancaster Bomber was unable to fly nor did the parachute drop happen, but we were treated to a grand finale of the RAF Typhoon who was definitely worth waiting for. Impressive bit of engineering!

After the RAF Typhoon display, Haig, Caitlin and Jess left to head back and myself and Uns made our way down to Fusciardi Ice Cream Parlour to get an ice-cream sundae each, sit on the beach for a while then make our way back up to the train station and finally back to London after a good day out.