Notting Hill Carnival

London in the 90s was a fun-filled, Godforsaken place for the displaced. The highlights of life in London could be summed up in a few yearly social events and popular landmarks. Namely: The London Notting Hill Carnival, New Year’s Eve in Trafalgar Square, Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th, and…

It’s the end of August 2022 and I’ve been reflecting on a very active Bank Holiday weekend which included a trip to the Notting Hill Carnival. A theme emerged when I examined the photographs I’d taken, where feathers were very much part of the mise-en-scène. Here’s my visual journey:

by Tilly Pern Staying within our culinary comfort zone is the easier way of eating. In any case, it’s certainly the less adventurous. But with the Notting Hill Carnival just around the corner and returning to the streets in full swing for the first time since the pandemic began, here’s…

After a long hiatus, Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest in Europe, and the second in the World, is back to celebrate a sense of community, music and culture. These are the highlights: Panorama — Saturday 27 August NHC Children’s Day — Sunday 28 August NHC — Monday 29 August Opera…

Welcome to Destination: History, where we tackle interesting and fascinating places and take a stroll through the history behind them. Today’s destination finds us in the trendy West London area. Famous for its antique market, this destination will have you wandering up and down this famous road inspecting goods and…

Notting Hill Carnival is a yearly event that has taken place in London every bank holiday at the end of August since 1966 (cancelled past two years due to Covid-19). It takes place in the streets of the Notting Hill area of Kensington. The carnival attracts over two and a…

I was a late carnival bloomer, my first one was in 2017. I wasn’t very sober but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Now, carnival is an annual event in my diary and I refuse to miss it. It wasn’t until I went to Barbados (where my grandad…

The current year’s subjects incorporate the Black Lives Matter development and a festival of Britain’s National Health Service, which is attempting to control the pandemic that has hit the Black people group more diligently than others. Coordinators of Europe’s greatest road reasonable, which follows its foundations to the liberation of…

You know how you think in a horror movie you’d always live and never make dumb decisions that the characters make? So did I. That was until last week when I had a quintessential London experience; the Notting Hill Carnival. About 2 million people visit the carnival over two days, or so I have been told.