The Notting Hill Festival is the largest festival in Europe and it took place yesterday. Some of my classmates and I went to check it out expecting it to be some sort of street fair. We had heard that it was Jamaican themed and had a parade worth seeing.
It turns out that the Notting Hill festival is like a gross college party that has thrown up onto the streets. It was held in a, normally, nice section of London but all of the storefronts had boards over their windows. We found out later that there were 107 arrests before early afternoon. Definitely not a place we wanted to be.
(that is in fact the crowd stretching to the horizon)
We took off pretty quickly after realizing that no matter where we went, the whole festival was like this. Luckily on our way back to the flat we found a beautiful church...
(St. John's)
and park.
(a small corner of Hyde Park)
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