Saturday 2 July 2011

Carnival time!


My friend and I drove up to Bristol this morning to spend the weekend cheering up our school pal, who has been having a bad few weeks. 

We had a packed day after a quick catch up and loo stop we headed down white ladies road and found a lovely little French place where we couldn’t decide what we wanted to eat so we picked three yummy dishes and shared! That’s the best thing about going for lunch with girls you share your food. I have a lot of good guy mates but I know that is never something we could do... yes we share food but in a different way... we all order our meals and what ever I or my other girl mates don’t eat the guys then swiftly then finish it off!






After our yummy lunch we took the bus down to broad meads and walked across to St. Pauls. It was the St. Pauls carnival, which is all about celebrating the multi cultural neighbours across St. Pauls.
Wow it was amazing! The atmosphere hit us as we got closer to a small park covered in beer tents and stands selling candy floss and jerk chicken! I was kind of regretting having our yummy lunch, as I had no room left for any jerk chicken, which is something I would love to try! Maybe next time...




The people of St. Pauls definitely did them selves proud in putting on a colourful prosecution of dancers and musicians and the costumes were amazing the bright colours shone as they danced to the afro Caribbean music with huge smiles across there faces! Take a peek at some of the pictures....






After seeing some of the main dancers we walked along the side of it back in to the heart of St. Pauls where we were greeted by stalls set up outside peoples houses, every thing from CD's to sugar cane to fizzy pop and sunglasses off the back of a lorry haha.






Every corner we turned we were greeted by smells and music and hundreds of people making the most of the carnival atmosphere.... I think this picture sums this up....




After a long day at the carnival we got the bus back and brought lots of yummy nibble food ready to fill us up for a night out. So let the girly night commence...

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