Notting Hill Carnival 2020 Parade Walk - Lansdowne Road to Ladbroke Grove, London

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With the biggest annual London event of the summer cancelled this year due to the current pandemic, we decided to take a walk along the usual Notting Hill Carnival parade route to see what the streets looked like without carnival. The route loops around from Ladbroke Grove, down Kensal Road, onto Elkstone Road and along to Westbourne Park. It then heads down Great Western Road onto Chepstone Road then Westbourn Grove and finishing back where we started at Ladbroke Grove. 

This walk takes just over an hour and passes by some beautiful churches, really cool pubs and market stalls. It was a pretty weird experience seeing the streets so quiet at this time of year, absent of the usual revellers, floats, feathers, sound systems and jerk chicken. Instead, everything moved online this year and the streets were bare, with the exception of carnival staff and police officers ready to dissuade any potential party starters. 

Check out these and other attractions in our Notting Hill Carnival 2020 Parade Walk - Lansdowne Road to Ladbroke Grove, London video on our Skint Adventure YouTube channel.

📸  See photos from this walk on our Skint Adventure Instagram account. 

📍 Check out these key attractions on the route, in the video:

  • Lansdowne Road 
  • Ladbroke Grove
  • Kensal Road
  • Elkstone Road
  • Westbourne Park
  • Great Western Road
  • Westbourne Park Road
  • Chepstone Road
  • Westbourn Grove
  • Ladbroke Gardens

📖  FUN FACT: Notting Hill Carnival is the second largest carnival in the world with an estimated attendance that is 11 times bigger than Glastonbury!


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