Summer Festivals 19-20 July

The UK has a tonne of music festivals on during the summer, massive 3-dayers like “T in the Park” and “Glastonbury” but also random afternoons in local parks. On Saturday afternoon we headed to the Ealing Blues Festival with Tim, Louisa and Toni. It was only £1 entry plus you could bring in your own food and drinks, and then they also have food stalls and beer tents for purchases, so it doesn’t end up having to cost a bomb – wish it was like that back home for Blues Brews! We sat in the sun and the bands were playing in a large tent so we didn’t have good visual, but it was nice listening to them while laxing back and all getting a little tiddly. London put on a good afternoon/evening of weather for us and we stayed until 9ish.

Sunday afternoon Niki and I went to Brixton to meet up with Spence at another summer festival. This one was a lot larger than Ealing, including lots of festival rides. We had been to this same festival last year with Spence & Lee-Ann, it still shocks me that we’ve been here over a year already! Brixton has a large population of Carribean people so the music was very Bob Marley-ish and soul. We just sat around by the main stage which is really good for people watching, there are some “incredible” heads of dreadlocks around. It was neat to catch up with Spencer and by the sounds of things the next time we see him may be in NZ!

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