Diwali in London

Do you know where I went this weekend? Do you? DO YOU?

Of course you don't. I haven't told you.

'You know what?', you ask, exasperated, 'I don't really care. In fact, I am about to callously abandon you and you London wanderings by cruelly clicking on the 'next blog' button'.

But alas, my unthrilled reader, you would then miss out on the big surprise.

Last weekend, I went to the Diwali celebrations in London.

'I know that,' you reply, so exasperated that the people at the Oxford English Dictionary photocopy your face as the definition of the word 'exasperated', 'I read the title'.

But, my dear schnookums, you would not know that I went to Trafalgar Square to celebrate it.

And celebrate it I did.

There was dancing and singing on the main stage, and the Square was packed. I went dancing along too, but at the cries of my wife (something about 'aesthetic crimes' and 'insult to dancing') I cannot publish those pictures here.

So instead, here's me looking glorious in front of some stores. Previous visitors to my little corner of the internet will recognise the National Gallery in the background.

The stores were selling pretty much everything from jewels to food (not the two mixed together. Awful indigestion).

Do you want to visit as well? The Diwali celebrations are on again, next year, at Trafalgar Square, sometime between the 11th November and 15th November (probably the 14th and 15th, to fit in with the weekend).

See you then!

Elf Dryadalis