Notting Hill Carnival 28th August

Annually during the Late Summer Bank Holiday weekend for the UK the Notting Hill Carnival is on. A massive Carribean street parade/festival. They shut off the whole area to traffic for miles around the area. The street parade includes hundreds of floats and takes a good hour to see it all. The streets are lined with stalls selling Carribean cuisine and we tried as much as we could fit it! Including curried goat, Jamaican Jerk chicken, plantain, bbq corn and Jamaican sweets. We left at about 4pm and the streets were throbbing with people. We had walk miles and miles to find a tube. They shut all the surrounding tubes and buses don't run until you are way out of the carnival because there are so many people. It was a good time to leave because apparently it gets a bit rowdy and drunken later on at night. Just to give you an idea how large it is I think 1 million people attend and they serve a tonne of curried goat!!! I'd recommend it to anyone who is in London for this weekend, however go early!

Philip lining up for some Jamacian Cuisine

The street parade

mmmm bbq corn!