Well, what a long time it's been since the last blog - and so much has happened!
The last weekend in July saw the busiest weekend of the
Peppermint Summer with our triple header weekend of Secret Garden Party, Camp Bestival and the Ben & Jerrys Summer Sundae and I'm happy to report we hit the ground running! With three events, infamous and incredible in their own right, the only complaint to be heard was that they were all on the same weekend!!
Still, the weekend saw Peppermint faces, old and new come together to provide shots, cocktails, pints and beverages of every kind in their thousands and you loved it! With the sun shining down on us (for all of 5 minutes!) we all had an epic time doing our thing and we know you did too!
My festival of choice (a tough, TOUGH one to call) had to be Secret Garden Party, which since its induction in 2004 has fast become the best (and not so well kept) secret in the UK festival scene. With super big time acts such as Jarvis Cocker and Rodrigo & Gabriella being a super small contribution to the colourful and riotus 4 day party, it's no wonder
Peppermint fitted in so well. From cocktails served in Watering Cans, fresh Pineapples and Melons to ice cold pints of cider and lager and delivered by our loyal army of Volunteers and our in house team of hippy Pepperminters, this was not event to be missed by anyone!
Last weekend saw a completely different set of events in the funky Victoria Park. With a Tiesto gig on friday that saw 2,000 VIPs alone, thousands of die hard fans gathered to watch the sun go down to the World's most revered DJ, cool pint in hand and dancing shoes on feet!
The Saturday welcomed Field Day: the cool kids' new favourite event that embraced all ranges of music from rock to pop and grime to funky house. In true British style, the rain came out and you all came in the bars to sample more cocktails, traditional ales and good old pints! Well, what else does a Brit do in the rain?!
No sooner had the last drink been finished, it was time to head down to Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight, the UK's largest sailing regatta. The place to be:
Shepard's Wharf,
Peppermint's very own slice of the action. During the week, thousands of sailors, wannabe sailors and good old spectators flocked into our Wharf to get involved. With our bars gleaming and staff beaming from the well deserved break from the festival scene, what a truly splendid affair it turned out to be!
What's next for Peppermint I hear you ask? I wish I could say a jolly good rest but I'm afraid no such luck in that department! With two of our biggest events on the way, we're still packing, building, planning to make our bars bigger, better and even more loved than ever in time for the highly anticipated
RED BULL XFIGHTERS and our favourite season ender
BESTIVAL where it's all hands on deck and no one rests until the first leaf falls from the tree!
To all of you that have read the entirity of this blog- well done, you are truly mad!
Emilie x
With the likes of Brian Adams, Zara Phillips and Joe Worsley in attendance, its proof that Peppermint Shepards Wharf was the place to be this Cowes week. For the full Cowes write up visit our blog or look in Hello magazine for the review.
