Festival Brighton

Brighton is busy busy busy today, with the Festival and Fringe festival in full swing.  In fact the Laines seemed more packed than ever.  Sunny weekends plus festival equals streets bursting with colour and creativity - musicians playing on every corner; piercings, tattoos, and crazy hairstyles on show; the fashionable and experimental; the weird and wacky; dogs, children, tourists, shoppers, photographers, and hundreds of people giving out leaflets for festival shows.  A bit overwhelming but also inspiring.  I always feel pretty plain and boring after taking a wander along Kensington Gardens!  Perhaps I should dye my hair pink next, learn the ukelele, or grow a moustache... haha OK not the last one.

We wandered through the market stands...

Check out the purple beard!

A whole lot of shades!

Mini sewing machines

Watched some of the live performances...

see... moustache!

 And tried Bubble Tea... (Japanese milky iced tea with tapioca balls in it).   Sounds weird, and it is.  Especially sucking up slimy balls through a fat straw!  I had vanilla flavour and Llewellyn had mango.  It wasn't bad... definitely worth trying.  Quite filling though!  I couldn't finish mine, which doesn't often happen!

It's good to be out and about and be inspired by people's creativity and originality.