My wife and I hit the big 4-0 recently and celebrated with a couple of weekend reality-breaks. For Liz's birthday we headed off to Iceland for
ATP's latest music festival staged in the unusual, semi-deserted environs of a former NATO Base in Keflavik. Highlights included
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Fall, The Notwist and local talents
Æla. In the downtime we gave the old bones a geothermal soak in the amazing
Blue Lagoon and spent the last day in Reykjavik, enjoying a birthday cocktail in the stunning new
Harpa concert hall.
For my 40th we popped down to
Bridport in Dorset to see
The Wedding Present play on their
Seaside Tour at the fantastic
Electric Palace. The weather was playing ball that weekend so we toured the Jurassic Coast visiting West Bay, Portland Bill and Lyme Regis while munching on some ace seafood at the Crabhouse Cafe on the Fleet.
In between those two trips we had a joint birthday do at Dalston's Cafe Oto and a lot of fun was had, if my hazy memory serves! Here's a souped-up tractor flyer invite I designed for the bash. The second illustration features an Icelandic food highlight, and our staple diet at the festival, the delicious hot dogs of Baejarins Bestu. Their jogging sausage-dude logo formed the basis of this birthday card design I made for Liz. Now, on with this 40 lark, harumph.
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