We didnt realise the pub crawl started off so early, as we made our way to Notting Hill at 10.30am. We hopped off the tube and walked out of the tube station to find thousands of people standing around drinking. Yes they were all (well 90%) kiwis. We pushed our way through the crowds to find our own little spot to starting drinking and to stare at all the people. On this day quite a few people like to dress up, so there were people dressed in the four square uniform, the mad butcher uniform, two guys represented the mongrel mob and a lot more. The idea of the pub crawl was that you started in Paddington and made your way back round, using the cirle line tube (which wasnt working this weekend) and it was around 27 stops. There were pubs you were meant to go to at each stop but there were so many people you couldnt go near the pub. Although this did make it cheap as we just drink on the street with our lollie water.
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| Notting Hill - thousands of people filled the streets |
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| Notting Hill - 1st stop |
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Guys dressed up as the mongrel mob, also next to him are guys dressed up as David Bain
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As we had to walk to the stops due to the tube not working, we made our way to Westminster Abbey where there was a Haka performance at 4pm. The police were really friendly and calm about the whole thing, I suppose because it is done every year and it would be pretty hard to arrest around 7 thousand people.. After Westminster Abbey, Rael and I saw a friend we knew so we went back to his place for a few more drinks and dancing. It was a really great day, although I did have a headache around 9pm from drinking all day so I think we were home by around 10.30pm.
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Paul and I drinking on the streets
Video of the crowds of people walking towards the next stop |
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| Westminster Abbey |
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| One of the many cops patrolling the streets |
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