... and here we go with trip no. 4

It's been fun, these last couple of months, having all these short trips around the place. I've now got my tickets for the fourth and final one, to London, so I'll be away from Sunday to Thursday inclusive.

As with the others, the purpose is twofold: I'm going to a couple of Proms - the first including Mozart's Serenade for 13 wind instruments, the second one a semi-staged version of Glyndebourne's new production of Così fan tutte - and catching up Luke and, hopefully, my uncle, whom I'd rather neglected until last October. It'll also give me the opportunity to revist all my old haunts, which is always welcome.

Concerning my choice of Proms, I should point out I don't usually go all out for Mozart in this way. As I pointed out in a previous post, they (and most other festivals this year) are going overboard with him this year, but Così is my favourite opera and the Gran partita is glorious music. Besides, even if I weren't working for the Festival up here, I wouldn't dream of leaving Edinburgh in August: it's just not done.

I'm perfectly willing to take photos if it's requested of me, but be warned - now the tourist season is well under way, I refuse to pass myself off as a tourist, particularly somewhere as big as London.