Stokey Festival

Yesterday was a very hot day in London at about 26c, Amir was with me and Aida went shopping with mum, so when a friend suggested to meet at a park in London where they were holding their annual festival, I said yes and went over.

It is the Stokenewington Summer Festival, it consists mainly of few tents where live music is played, many eateries from around the world and some fun places for the kids. as it was a hot day, the place was heaving with people enjoying the hot weather, many were just sunbathing, even though there were bars serving alcohol and many had brought their own, almost everyone was well behaved and no trouble at all, I saw the police confiscate small packages from few people which I am assuming were drugs!

The main theme of this festival is the environment and how to be Eco friendly, well I am all for that, I think it is good to make people aware of such important issues, saying that, I felt the festival took it a bit too much, in fact to the point that I wanted to harm the environment just to annoy them, joking :o)

There were few kids rides that were manually operated (how boring) to save electricity, not many kids wanted to play on them, of course there was the obligatory foreign music from Asia ans South America which you always get at Eco friendly events, even rubbish bins were provided for every type of litter, bins for paper, bins for plastic and so on, too much political correctness in one day.

This area in north London is famous for its middle class people that like to pretend they are working class, so often you see many of them dressed in awful clothes bought from second class shops, they even dress their children in old clothes that do not look cheap, just bad and most kids have wooden bicycles because they are good for the environment, God help me, that is so annoying.

Anyway here is some pictures I took there and please take notice of Amir's funky shirt, it a Marvel shirt with all the usual heroes, Spiderman, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and the rest... I thought he looked cool, it was a good bargain at £4 and no it wasn't bought secondhand, lol :o)

Spanish Paella, Yum! we didn't buy any food there since it was very expensive and you have to sit on the grass to eat, to give you an example: cheese burger was selling for £4.50, usually it costs about £1.20!

French Crepe

another music tent

Re-cycling bins

Big BBQ!

Indian & Chinese

Moroccan Tagine stand, the food looked good, the staff were happy that I took their pictures

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After we left the park, we walked to a Turkish restaurant (big Turkish community in this area) and ate Pide & Lahmacun, very nice.

As we left we saw a Turkish couple leave the hairdressers, there was a Limousine waiting for them outside the shop but they decided to walk up the road to show off a bit, typical Middle Eastern behaviour :o)

Good luck to them