Here I am in Hamburg, the last stop on the first leg of my German tour. I thought you would be fed up by now with happy shots of me with customers and Opticians, so these photos are just from my mobile phone as I either walked to the appointment or drove away.

Hamburg is a fantastic city and will probably be one of our best areas in Germany, if not Europe for Bespoke sales. In fact Optik Renken has only had the Bespoke system eight weeks and has already submitted 16 jobs. We had a quick look through his work and there were some really great examples of Bespoke either already delivered or about to arrive. 

I think he must have been happy since he was talking about spending Euro 5000 on a film to promote Bespoke in Hamburg. I told him I'd rather he spent 1% of that sending his staff to design school and that I'd make him a short film from our forthcoming NEW bespoke film for his website.

Which reminds me, I finished filming the film on Friday night in Bremen. I have done a quick review of the rushes (looked at the screen on the camera on the flight home) and I have to say, it is liquid gold...in fact, I am so pleased with it, I think I'm going to rent the local cinema for the premier...(or at least see if the manager needs a new set of glasses!).

Last but not least, I landed back in London today. I put my family to bed for a lunch time snooze and sneakily started working on the August production schedule.  My wife "caught" me working and took this photo. On the table you can see over 50 prototypes technical drawings which will make up the collection releases for the next few months. I have been VERY busy during the world tour emailing sketches to my design team. The trip is having the most remarkable influence on the design direction and you can expect to see the best frames in the world EVER coming to an Optician near you!