Notting Hill Carnival returns to west London this August bank holiday, the 55th edition of one of the world’s biggest street parties and the largest in Europe by a distance. Since 1966, carnival has been a celebration of British Caribbean culture and diversity, a festival of music, dance, and food and drink.
The floats always dazzle, performers dress emphatically, and sound systems reverberate through mouthfuls of jerk chicken and gulps of Red Stripe. Well over two million people, including thousands of tourists, attend each year to watch mas performers, hear steel bands, and follow the three-and-a-half mile parade route through W10.
