About this time last year we went to the Chinese Lantern Festival in Victoria Square. Well, that is still sitting there - in the middle of the cordoned off area in town. This year, it was held along the bank of the Avon River next to Hagley Park and it is *magnificient* These pictures do not do it justice. We went at about 9pm when it was just getting dark, and watched some chinese dancers, then an incredible dragon dancing team from Shanghai. They had won competitions and you could see why. They were also acrobats, and were making human pyramids so that the dragon could do some really complicated moves. As we walked around looking at the lanterns and 3D displays a chinese reggae band played on the stage. Yip, chinese reggae!
We ate quite a bit of food from the stalls, and everyone's favourite was vegetable pancakes. Very oily but totally delicious. Lucy now believes me that she does like onions :)
It would be hard to say what our favourite lantern was... We really loved the pigs from the "Year of" animals (Dom and I are rats, Lucy is a monkey, Seb is a dragon and Megane is a tiger - no surprise there!), and the dragon that was in the river, but Megane and I were delighted by the HUGE roses hanging from an oak tree.
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