Truefit and Hill, Intern Pub Crawl and GBBF

Posted on 2012/08/12 12:12:54 (August 2012).

[Wednesday 8th August 2012]
Went to get my hair cut this morning, and decided to try out another of the traditional barbers in St. James's - this time Truefitt and Hill. I'm not entirely convinced I actually like the hair cuts I get from these places, but I really like the atmosphere of them, and it's interesting to think of all the aristocrats and luminaries who've had their locks trimmed by the same barbers over the years.

In the evening I was commissioned by a bunch of interns at the office to show them a couple of pubs near the office. Naturally I was happy to oblige, and introduced them to two of Belgravia's finest - the Horse and Groom and the Nag's Head. It was a good opportunity to rattle out the now extensively rehearsed spiel about the history of the area and the pubs in it to a new and receptive audience. Or at least, they were polite enough to give the appearance of being receptive.

Being impoverished intern types, they were all keen to get back to the office before 8pm (when the cafe in the office stops serving dinner), and so it was rather a short outing. I wasn't quite ready to go home, and Chie was otherwise engaged for the evening, so decided to go and join Al at the Great British Beer Festival at Kensington Olympia. I drank exclusively cider and perry there, and was rather pleased that after my arrival both Al and his colleagues all followed suit.

Still not sure I really like the Great British Beer Festival compared to, say, Reading Beer Festival - although the Olympia is a big improvement on Earl's Court, it's still just a bit too big and impersonal.

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