Its coming up to my 1-year anniversary of writing up this blog and one of the last things I didn’t write about (but I did in a mass email to back home) was the Notting Hill Carnival. I think I’m fairly happily placed really – close enough to walk out the door and get to the Carnival but not so close that it takes over my entire weekend. And when I say takeover I really mean it.

Today the weather was absolutely gorgeous for the carnival. I took my bro with me to experience it and he commented it was just like Halloween in San Fran but without the costumes … loud, great music, great atmosphere, a ton of people. The sound systems were really rockin’ and the food smelt brilliant.

More noticeable this year was the police presence. It was actually pretty amusing to see them walking around in packs – kinda reminded me of the herd of nerds that you had to avoid in the old Sega computer game ToeJam & Earl. Classic game.

The Carnival was pretty fun for the couple of hours we were there just absorbing it all but after a while we just had to get out and boy what a journey that was! But we managed …