Sunday marks the first day of the two-day festival, and it's designed to be the day for kids. In actual fact, spent much of the first day just wandering around the carnival area - getting bearings for the big street floats the next day. Sunday was therefore quite sedate - there were several parades milling about the streets but nothing significant. This may be due to the fact that I was in the wrong area altogether, or that there weren't all that many groups doing the rounds.
Bank Hoilday Monday was where it was all at. Since I already did the rounds on the Sunday, Monday was all about finding a good spot to see the show! Got to the show early and parked a little way down from the Judging panel. Great idea, right? Almost.
The layout of the judging area was that all the judges, the support tent, and vip guests were all along one side of the road... whereas the rest of the gathereres would be on the other side of the road. This meant that at times, the crowd near the judging area would only see the back of the dancers/revellers/whatever you'd call them. That and occasionally you'd have your view blocked by minders, official photographers / cameramen, and or police (although the police did do a good job managing the crowds).
A few representative pictures of the days events is posted below. Most memorable thing about the event is the music... carribean accented words blaring out of the speakers... "Part-eee Hard" thump, thump, thump, "Part-eee Hard!"... or "Wah-ter", boom, boom, "Wah-ter". Sometimes the music got so loud that it felt like the beats were pushing me away. Intense. Anyhoo, enough for now!
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