St Patrick's Day

I've decided that festivals here in the London are crap! I've been to two so far and they both consisted of lots of crowds to push your way through, poor entertainment and no decent food or interesting stalls to explore!

I went to the Chinese New Year festival and was very disappointed when I didn't see any food stalls (especially no satay stalls) and a very boring dragon dance that drew a big crowd but instead of providing entertainment, created a barracade of people that you had to push through just to get from one end of china town to the other. It was ridiculous!This was the entertainment put on near China Town (not the main entertainment). This photo is of a caucasian man teaching the crowd how easy it is to learn and speak Mandarin.

This little boy made up his own dragon dance with his sister! He was so cute! He did a much better job than the real dragon dance performance! :)

On the 14th March, I went with Francis, my new Irish friend, to the St Patrick's Day festivals held in Trafalgar Square. Again, another disappointment. The only slight different with this festival was that not only did it have a lot of people, it also had a lot of drunk people. To the left and right of that stage were 'bar areas' for people to drink to their heart's content :)