Notting Hill Carnival

Bank holiday weekend...if you are a Londoner you will be doing one of 4 things:

1. Going to Reading Festival
2. Going away somewhere nice for 3 days
3. Doing nothing
4. Going to 'The Carnival'

On Sunday I went to the carnival for the first time as I only recently became a Londoner. It was amazing...

...the energy that surrounds the dance groups and musicians as they travel through the streets.

As I wandered around you not only find yourself watching the carnival but the people watching it too. Everyone is there to have a good time, and everyone with a camera is after 'the carnival shot'. I have a pretty basic snapshot camera but here are my best shots....

I love the colours and all the mixture of people....so here is my 'carnival shot' (slightly altered obviously)...let me know what you think....

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Cocktails at Balans!!

http://www.balans.co.uk/Restaurants_Cafes/Westfield.php

I went here for after work drinks, fabulous place, mainly because I ordered large cosmopolitans every time and was only charged for smalls!!! Yay.

Due to it being a 'table service' place I would not recommend it for very large groups!!! But the cocktails...or at least their cosmopolitan is AMAZING!!

H xx

Love The Dove

http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=4&itemid=84&task=View

My favourite place to sit with a glass of wine and a good meal and watch the boats and ducks and swans go by on the river Thames. It is definitely a place to visit but don't go there in a hurry, it is a place to savour and enjoy, and sometimes you may have a little wait for a table...especially if the weather is good and you want to sit outside.

A little treasure in Fulham

So I went to view a flat tonight...although I got there and decided not to even bother going in as it was on a rather dodgy looking road in ex-LA looking blocks.

However as I wandered back to Fulham Broadway Station I found the most amazing shop ever and have decided that from now on every weekend I am in London I will be going there to do my food shopping!!!

It is called Union Market: http://www.unionmarket.co.uk/ it even has a website, check it out.

I popped in, it is open 'til 10pm every week-night and browsed the shelves, coming out with two boxes of exotic looking teas and a bottle of elderflower presse (my favourite).

Had I not just done my food shopping an hour earlier at my local M&S I would have bought more as the fruit and veg looked delectable and the butchers/deli counters just drew me to them. Anyway I was very restrained but will definitely be going back there on Saturday!!! If you are ever in the area, pop in as it also has a cafe/coffee shop!

What more could you want?!

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