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“A charming comfortable and well equipped flat in very good location. Very near to all the wonderful facilities of Notting Hill, easy to take buses into the centre of London and good food and shopping also on Kensington High Street.”
Yvette Leung - Singapore
Fun facts about the Notting Hill Carnival
There are up to two million attendees at Carnival every year, plus 40,000 volunteers and 9,000 police. Which means that the Carnival is as big as 11 Glastonbury festivals
It’s the second largest carnival in the world, just behind the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro… and the largest street festival in Europe
Tourists only make up about 20 percent of the Carnival crowd
The carnival tradition has its distant roots in the eighteenth-century Trinidadian Canboulay processions, back in the dark days before Red Stripe
There are five different aspects of the carnival: masquerade, sound systems, steel pan bands, calypso and and soca (there are around 40 static sound systems, ten steel pan bands and 70 performing stages)
There are around 15,000 costumes on display every year (and every single costume is made by hand. It takes one million man-hours to make and decorate them all)
Around 30 million sequins, 15,000 feather plumes and 30 litres of body paint are used
Monday is the rowdiest day of Carnival, while Sundays are a little more child-friendly
Legendary rock band Pink Floyd played one of their first gigs as part of the original festival
