Aldeburgh Carnival Part 2

After coming back from the shops some of the boys got a bit peckish, and seeing as I was the only girl in the house at that time, one of them asked me "Lottie, please can you make us something?"

I had a look in the fridges and one thing was for sure, we had a lot of bacon.

Bacon sandwiches it was!

 

A few hours later we decided it was about dinner time, and even though I was completely full, I wouldn't say no to pizza, who says you have to be hungry to eat?

 
This genuinely is one of my favourite foodie places, apart from "PIZZA", I don't really think they have a name, but they often have a stall in my local town's market place, after spying them stone baking pizzas on request and it only taking a maximum of 4 mins to actually get that pizza from a ball of dough into a delicious stone baked pizza gripped between your hands, it's the ultimate fast food, sorry McDonald's.

Plus you get to see them make it, I'm nosy so I think this is a big plus.

 

Josh went for his favourite, ham and pineapple.

And I went for my favourite (and Josh's worst nightmare because he detests mushrooms), ham and mushroom.

The staff were really acomodating and didn't put any cheese on mine, thank goodness!

Then some of us couldn't hold on for the 1 minute walk back to the house..

But when we were back, we feasted.

  

  Because the house was rented, and because there were so many of us staying there, glasses and drink containers became limited. I did spy Bridie drinking wine out of a tea cup, but Josh , G and Charlie had better ideas, Pinterest eat your heart out, they used jars.

After we finished our pizzas and drinks, we made our way out onto the beach.

As it gets dark the town takes part in another parade, only this time there's no dress up, you each have a lantern, you start in the town centre and finish on the beach. I used to do it every year when I was younger but we had forgotten about it until everyone turned up at the beach with their lanterns.

I was seriously kicking myself for not bringing my Canon with me, but it would have got broken, so these will have to do!

After everyone arrives at the beach there's a beautiful firework display.
These big ones are my favourite, the ones that sneak into the sky quietly, then explode with a loud bang!

Then last but not least, we ended up at the fairground to go on Rock City.
Yes, I know, it may be over priced and tacky, but it's my favourite ride and so so so much fun!!

 I just wish I hadn't have had to come home the day after!!

Aldeburgh Carnival Part 1

Every year Aldeburgh plays host to a carnival that takes place in mid-August. A large proportion of Suffolk flocks there and I've been nearly every year I can remember.

This year Josh's best friend Charlie had a house, and invited lots of us to go and stay for a few days, I took far too many photos of the carnival and I can't cut them down because they're all fab, so picture overload!

It's an opportunity for the whole of the town to get together, and everyone takes part, even these lovely ladies, who were very nice about me taking their picture!

The most of then houses all along the highstreet each have a balcony, and if you can get at one these are the best places to watch the parade, no craning our necks to see over people's shoulders for us because luckily, Josh's best friend was renting a house and had invited us to stay and the house was positioned so that we were one of the first to see the floats go past.

Rather exciting stuff.

First came the marching band..

..Who lead the carnival Queen in.

From what I understand, the choosing of the Queen is a bit like Aldeburgh X-Factor, she has to be a good egg and play a role in the community, as well as being easy on the eyes. Yikes.

The crowning was just past the house so we couldn't see it, so we chatted and pointed out costumes and people we knew to each other.

The jelly fish were my favourite costumes, and they bobbed along to the band.

The light house was so cool, the gap is where the driver sits on a quad bike and the effort was amazing!

This was by far my favourite float, the seaside theme was used to create an ice cream van but they handed out ice creams as they went past, one downside of being on the balcony- No ice creams.

After the parade had finished we walked into town to the shops to get supplies and snacks, on our way we got stuck in the middle of a samba performance, the day didn't end here, but that's for another post!