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While my colleague and I were speaking about Srs Bsnss with our industrial partners last week, we heard a roaring noise outside the window. The 250th anniversary flyover displays by the fighter jets had begun.

We grabbed our hats and sunglasses and went onto the roof to have a closer look.



It ended up being a very close look indeed. (I would like to point out that none of us were the ones clapping.)



This was a more comfortable view of the formation flying.



Here they are coming from t’other direction.

This continued for around 10 minutes before they all zoomed off, presumably to base for a little rest from the heat.

I have had to omit some of this DitL, but this collection of random photos provides reasonably complete coverage of the informal bits of it.



Entrance to Chinatown, next to the Walgreens where I bought the laptop charger I forgot to bring with me. I never fail to omit packing something important when I travel. It used to be underwear. These days it tends to be either toiletries or electronic accessories (much more boring).



Maman’s bakery pastries: S’mores Croissant Cube (rating unknown, but watched a small girl trying to get through it with a fork and it looked a little dense) + Orange Pistachio Olive Tea Cake (5 stars out of 5, ecstatic breakfast experience).



Fanciful crockery design at the breakfast venue.



Delicious oat milk cappuccino in fanciful crockery.



Hang on, isn’t there some sort of special occasion happening fairly soon?



Ah yes, that was it.



Never mind, let’s have some whisky and not think about this, or indeed anything else, for a short while.



Such a shame we don’t have a bit more time to sample more than 1/1000th of the collection.



Bed, who needs bed when you can go on the rooftop and drink wine?



Also, watch the moonrise and try to spot satellite trails.

Epilogue: After a 19-hour day, I did go to bed.