Notting Hill Carnival
As I am writing this, the party outside is still going on, and on and ON!
The biggest carnival of its kind in Europe, the Notting Hill carnival is an institution of London now in its 41st year. Enough with the boring encyclopediaic stuff!
A celebration of Carribean culture that has now become a symbol diveristy and I loved every second of it. The atmosphere was fantabulous!
Picture this:
Wafting smells of smokey barbecue jerk chicken, corn, roast plantains and the gentle puffs of the naughty leaf. Tempting coconuts ripe for drinking, sugar cane ready for enducing sugar sky-highs, and...candy floss. A rum shack, with a bucket of carribean rum mango and orange chunks. Mmmmmm.
The sounds of Soca beats, amplified steel pan vibes with RnB beat, techno-Carribean funk, 50 cent (and a 5?6? year old girl who knew all the lyrics!), bangra drums, mad whistles (including my very own Whistle of Dooom! :: toot toot trill toot::) back to Soca beats, and currently... Jimi Hendrix!
The streets, a human anthill. Whizzing past in a haze of technicolour...red butterfly-like creatures, red-white-black clad steel pan bands, costumed children laughing and jiggling to the beats.
A purple-green-yellow gold sequined army, pink-turqoise silver bursts of brightness, orange-yellow sun gods, costumes celebrating the Olympic 2012 win. Trucks with booming sound systems, mud/cement /sweat/water covered people, the spring-summer-autumn-winter parade...
A strikingly dizzying display of joie de vivre.Does life get better than simply dancing in the street? Carnival-tastic.
The Whistle of Dooooom!
The carnival crew - smiley smiley!
A picture frame in the middle of the road? Eeeexcellent.
The biggest carnival of its kind in Europe, the Notting Hill carnival is an institution of London now in its 41st year. Enough with the boring encyclopediaic stuff!
A celebration of Carribean culture that has now become a symbol diveristy and I loved every second of it. The atmosphere was fantabulous!
Picture this:
Wafting smells of smokey barbecue jerk chicken, corn, roast plantains and the gentle puffs of the naughty leaf. Tempting coconuts ripe for drinking, sugar cane ready for enducing sugar sky-highs, and...candy floss. A rum shack, with a bucket of carribean rum mango and orange chunks. Mmmmmm.
The sounds of Soca beats, amplified steel pan vibes with RnB beat, techno-Carribean funk, 50 cent (and a 5?6? year old girl who knew all the lyrics!), bangra drums, mad whistles (including my very own Whistle of Dooom! :: toot toot trill toot::) back to Soca beats, and currently... Jimi Hendrix!
The streets, a human anthill. Whizzing past in a haze of technicolour...red butterfly-like creatures, red-white-black clad steel pan bands, costumed children laughing and jiggling to the beats.
A purple-green-yellow gold sequined army, pink-turqoise silver bursts of brightness, orange-yellow sun gods, costumes celebrating the Olympic 2012 win. Trucks with booming sound systems, mud/cement /sweat/water covered people, the spring-summer-autumn-winter parade...
A strikingly dizzying display of joie de vivre.Does life get better than simply dancing in the street? Carnival-tastic.
The Whistle of Dooooom! 
The carnival crew - smiley smiley!
Did you know candy floss could also be used as fake moustachios?
The cute baby doods! (We think their mum thought we were wierd for taking pictures of her cute baby doods!)
In de Rum Shack, djah man! De rum, de mango, de orange, den more RUM! YUM!
A picture frame in the middle of the road? Eeeexcellent.
posted by Balcancan at 8/29/2005
5 Comments:
DOOD! (as you would say) Das ist wunderbar! So disappointed that I wasn't around to experience it with you! Next summer perhaps?
Love the pics!
DOOD i wish you could have been here! We are totally going next year again! We should wear costumes!
A pair of gold sequined tight trousers anyone?
Gold sequined trousers you say? Look no further!
I also have a pair in silver and pink.
Haha, dood is right. La lang is spreading far and wide.
As for the carnival, it looks just lovely - there is always next year, no?
Sending you lots of love.
DOODs - da lingo is totally spreading!
Gold or pink/silver. Decisions decisions...
Which ones are shinier? Go for the extra bling factor.
Aaaaah there is definitely next year doods, they wont know what hit them! (Because they will be blinded by the bling!)
Djah man. Now where's dem plantains?
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