Notting Who?! Gimme that sweet T&T anyday!

I retired from going to Notting Hill carny a few years ago. The mean mugging and gun finger skanks just became a bit over whelming. Yeah I know, the children are our future, teach them well and let them led the way...blah blah blah! (Crazy kids and their grime music!) Besides that, the routine of navigating my way through hoards of people to get to the rampage stage, only then for some genius to start a fight and cause everything to get locked off - began to bore me - I guess routine kills creativity....

Like most people I had heard countless times before that if I wanted to experience a real carnival I should really holla at the Brazilians and Trinidadians. Apparently they do carnival in a BIG way, unlike the half-heartedness of us Londoners with Notting Hill.

So as you can imagine, when the opportunity arose to 'holla at the trinidadians' quite literally and head out to Trinidad to capture the essence of one the worlds biggest and brightest street carnivals - naturally the kid didn't think twice.

In a nutshell, if you ever get a chance to go to Trinidad carnival go! It'll change the way you ever look at carnival again. I for one have never seen people who are so passionate about their music, food and culture as a whole - (all aspects which make Trini carnival what it is). Spanning over the course of 2 weeks (pre carnival - carnival - post carnival) there are parties every single night for 2 weeks straight - (note: sleep deprivation is the norm during those 2 weeks so make sure you've got that Pro Plus in full effect!) As drinking, in all its awe, vomit, regretful one nighters and GBH assault charges is king here in the UK, wine-ing is a religion over in Trindad during carnival. You could be Mr Bean, it won't matter, you'll get a piece of that sweet t&t hip rotation for sure!

Visually incredible to watch, with the array of colour and spirit, I now know what carnival is.
Carnival is Trinidad.

I guess that just leaves Brazil - know any brazilians.... anyone......