Barrio Portuguese Festival

I spent a few hours in the morning in the Barrio Portuguese Festival in Petersham. I walked up the hill to the festival.

On the way I walked through Henson Park for the first time.





And then some images from Marrickville and Petersham.






Finally, I reached the top of the hill and found the food festival. Some of the stalls were the same as the Marrickville Festival and clearly there are stalls that follow the circuit of street festivals around the state. However, there were also some stalls from local restaurants and these are the ones I tries. I had a chorizo roll and Brazilian banana desert for lunch.





I spent some time watching the live band and dancing.





And finally I went home. I took a detour as I was just wandering the streets and found much good architecture and street art.

elvis festival - gospel slide show

This is a slide show of all of the Parkes Elvis festival 20009, but the sound track is from the gospel service. Mostly the sound is ok, but for one song there is a lot of distortion. The photos are from my collection on flickr. I did the slide show on full auto and some of the cropping is not the best... oops.




Other posts on The Parkes Elvis Festival 2009.

Elvis Festival - Getting there

Elvis Festival - First Impressions

The parade at the Parkes Elvis Festival

Elvis Festival - Staying in Forbes

Chinese New Year Parade, Sydney 2009

Well for the second year in a row, I went to the new year's parade. Though I have something else in mind for next year. Unlike last year, this time the parade was held at dusk and this time I went with the SPB.

We met at Central Station and then headed to the Edinburgh Castle for a late lunch/early dinner. Even though James had said otherwise, the kitchen was closed when we arrived and we had to wait 45 minutes till it opened.





We then headed down into China Town and picked a spot along the parade route to spend the evening. It was an hour and a half before the parade started.





The parade got off to a slow start. There was some problem that we could not see and a fire truck came trough the crowd and went up george street. A while later the parade started to come down to where we were.



The first part of the parade was local groups. They came with the floats from last year, but now lit up for the night time.








Some people took the higher view of the parade.



And then came the professional groups from China. One woman from Anhui provice spoke with me during the parade. She was very proud to be here and of her troupe. And I think I played the drums with one of the drummers when I was in Harbin a few years back.












Some more photos of the crowd.



And the police.



The end.