Finn and Highgate Cemetery

My good friend Finn was over from Norway recently, and we met up in London. We wandered from my house, up past Abbey Road to Hampstead Heath then Highgate for the cemetery.


Abbey Road studios


Fame beckons for young Finn

Finn is already a famous rockstar in Norway after being randomly chosen at Øya Festival in Oslo by Devendra Banhart to come up on stage and perform solo! Here's a video of it.


Future album cover?

Highgate Cemetery
One of those famous London places that I've never been to in the 12 years or so I've lived here! Just shows you how much of London there is to get through!


Finn in Highgate Cemetery

There are of course many famous graves - the ones I was interested in were the famous Karl Marx one, and Douglas Adams, which we came to first.


Douglas Adams RIP


Random Graves


Peaceful walking


Marx

Around Marx there were all sorts of other leftie gravestones, which then progressed on to a anti-establishment journalism section - I came across Paul Foot, the investigative journalist who worked for Private Eye.


Paul Foot

Finally we head up to the Spaniard's Inn at the top of the Heath, dating from 1585, but more importantly serving some excellent beers and with a large and quiet (at this time) beer garden.


Well-earned pint

Eri Minoura Over

A few weeks ago Eri visited from Japan. Was great to see her, and over the two weeks she stayed in London we had lots of fun. Here are a random selection of the photos from that time.


Eri.. at 7:15am. It's a first.


Her gelati scanners quickly located the ice-cream


Post ice-cream happiness


Chomping in Pret


Tourist in the London Rain


The survivors of the Cy Twombly exhibition


Dinner on my balcony



Contemplating Jake and Natsuko


Teletubbies lawn


Eri... berry!


Eri... beery!


Na-chan and Jake



Waitress!


Spanish stepping


Cool


Tourist


Streaky sky


Who doesn't like Bacon?


Synchronised lunacy


The Eriberry pose


Attack dog


Eating the inheritance


Nomad wandered in from desert


More berries


Fetching


Muuuahh


No boquerones


Is it a cake?


Yes it is


The band


Concentrating on the task in hand


Tick tick tick


Round and round


Banksy Alley


Entangled affairs


What day is today?


At Eri's Mecca - Marine Ices in Chalk Farm


Chopping the locks


Happiness with the soon to be Mum and Dad


Drowning in Richmond


Muse

Was sad to see her go, but there's always next year! Dewa mata-ne Eri-berry! x