Notting Hill Carnival

Since 1966 every August Bank Holiday the two days long Notting Hill Carnival is considered of largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. Setting the streets of West London. About a million people are expected to attend the Notting Hill Carnival, This Europe's biggest street party More than a million revellers are expected to take part, while a total of 12,000 (an extra 2,000) police officers will patrol Europe's biggest street festival. A multi-ethnic throng milled between the stalls and thumping sound systems, drinking, dancing, and tasting jerk chicken as the smells of open-cooked food wafted through the air, over 40,000 volunteers and over 1 million Notting Hill carnival revellers paraded along the three-and-a-half mile route.

Notting Hill Carnival debuted in 1964, for Afro-Caribbean communities to celebrate their own cultures and traditions and has since been celebrated every year. This carnival organised by Claudia Jones, who is widely recognised as the Mother of the "Notting Hill Carnival".

Sunday is Children’s day and Monday is Adults day. The more family-friendly Sunday is the best day to take children to the Carnival.