Yesterday I went to the Notting Hill Carnival with one of my housemates. It is called the biggest street festival in Europe but neither of us had any idea what to expect.
It was massive, loud, in your face and awesome. I had a whole lot of fun and have vowed to come back next year and get on a float.
The festival is a celebration of (mostly) Caribbean culture. There was plenty of rum (in two days they get through 25,000 bottles of it!) goat curries, jerk chicken and Jamaican stout.
It is also 50 years since the beginning of independence for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago so the celebrations were extra large.
You know the festival is going to be good when the guide they hand out tells you “if you want to have a good time drink neat rum. Don’t drink beer as you will spend all day looking for the toilet” and “if you don’t know what to do, just act as un-English as possible”
The first thing we saw, a dancing knitting granny – very cool.
This was all part of the chocolate float, which covered everything near it in chocolate. Definitely the best smelling float!
I love it when the police are willing to get in on the fun.
The theme behind this float is that the mops and brooms are all decorated by children who a taught to sweep away insults, rubbish and crime. Plus it looks amazing!
This kid was very cool.
So who’s coming on the chocolate float with me next year?
She'll be Apples 
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