NOTTINGHILL 2012 EUROPES BIGGEST STREET PARTY

A million people flocked to Nottinghill for this years Carnival and they were not disappointed. The festival kicked off with a Steel band Panorama on the Saturday bank holiday followed by children's day on the Sunday, with Bank holiday Monday ending the parade with Mass from over 80 Bands taking part. Nottinghill has become a rich smoggasbord of cultural diversity, with Socca sounds, Samba dancers and traditional steel bands which all adds to a caccophony of sound down in Nottinghill.

Those of us that were there enjoyed the colourful pageantry, spectacle and theatre that exploded onto the street. We hummed our way home having enjoyed two days of dancing, drinking and eating scrumptious Carribean fare.

The sights and the sounds will live long into the memory until we gather again next year to do it all again.  Proving that there is only one place to be over August Bank Holiday weekend at Europes biggest Street party The Nottinghill Carnival.