For the first time I attended this huge Christmas fair where 70,000 visitors were expected, and I was really impressed at the enormous amount of tents set up in the main closed off streets of Leederville.
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| The rows of food tents along one of the streets |
There were 250 stalls selling from take-away food to arts and crafts, vintage and recycled goods, gourmet food, and stalls selling Christmas goodies.
There were 8 stages through the venue with different types of entertainment, chefs had cooking demonstrations, camel rides for kids, a funfair for kids too, artists painting walls....
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| This Space Man made some weird sounds - space age music maybe? |
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| Father Christmas on his bike rode around the fair |
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| A Gym bus for the kids |
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| Camel riding for the kids |
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| We had a very tasty Spanish Paella |
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| You could also cycle for your fresh fruit juice... |
Friends of ours had a stall selling Cork products from Portugal - "Corker" , with handbags, hats, iphone cases, wallets, etc., a unique product in Australia.
At 8pm, they had about 5 minutes of fireworks and then the streets Christmas lights were lit up. It was time to catch the train back home. (The Leederville train station was a 5 min walk away)
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| Christmas lights lit up in the streets of Leederville |
I had a lot of fun going to the Christmas fair, and hopefully next year I'll be able to go again.
In my next post I will post a few photos of some new murals I came across at the fair.
Almost two weeks to Christmas and I'm still so behind with my preparations... Hope your Christmas preparations are coming along well.
That sure looks like a lot of (yummy) fun! Great is also that Father Christmas is wearing a helmet! Still way too many people without helmets over here...
ReplyDeleteAnd the last pic is just beautiful! Love this time of the year!
Helmets are compulsory over here! Actually there was a tent at the Christmas market selling beautiful covers for helmets...
DeleteOh you have such interesting things happening in your neck of the woods. That paella looks awesome. I have lots of baking planned for this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThe paella was wonderful with lots of prawns and chicken Gill. I have yet to bake my Christmas cake...
DeleteLooks like it was a lot of fun Sami, Once again I missed it so am very happy to see your shots here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Grace, there is so much on every weekend, that it's hard to keep up. I would have liked to see the Christmas Pageant on Saturday 6th, but with our garden renovations it was impossible to waste so many hours...
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ReplyDeleteFantastic photographs! I have heard a lot about these Christmas events in New York. I never got chance to visit NYC on Christmas. Anyways, I am very glad that you shared these photographs with us!
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