Noting Hill Carnival

The main street from all the way up. There surely is no end to it. You can spot the trucks in there.

We just went there for a little bit to see how it is, still, the biggest one in Europe! Wasn't very impressed, but was interesting. Apparently it is a Carribean thing, so there is loads of soundsystems around playing reggae and stuff and all kinds of Carribean food stalls. But that is in surrounding streets and areas. The main street, however is for the parade. People with costumes and trucks with music in there. So that's all, plus crowds of people, tons of rubbish, police and ambulance everywhere (just in case!).

Parade

Some watch it from the comfort of their own window sill :)

Kids of course...

Jamaican food stall on the right, music in front.

The inside of a truck in the parade. Yeeees, that is a truck which goes in the parade :)

Some roof :)

Eastbourne: The place for old people

Museum in Eastbourne

The last weekend of August was a long weekend as the Monday was off as well. That's when Noting Hill carnival takes place. But on Saturday we decided to go to Eastbourne with my classmate Virga :)

Eastbourne is not far from Brighton, it is situated on the same beautiful coast. We went to see it for a bit and had a walk in the city. There is a joke that average age of the population there is 75 and it really feels like truth :)) everything around there reminds of old age: a competition for veteran sportsmen, old ladies' style knitwear shops, boules clubs, wheelchair accessibility everywhere, even the museum says "how WE lived them" - normally a museum would show other people in the past lived, right? And there people go to the museum to remember about their days :)))

Sunday morning was all so bright and sunny, but we headed back to London for Noting Hill.

Beachy Head

Eastbourne pier. Full or arcade games. Yuck.

Sunny!