Vive La Kemptown Carnival

By Victoria Hepburn

My first "moment" in Brighton was when I came to look my first flat in Kemptown. I was living outside of Brighton at the time and the whole place seemed to have this magic quality to me - I was really looking forward to living in this quirky utopia. We parked a few streets away from where our new flat was located and as we walked towards the street the noise of a carnival ensued. At this point my mother called me eager to hear about the new place. I could barely hear her but she said "What on earth is going on there?" I squeaked something about a carnival and hundreds of people but as I hung up I had a slightly wary thought: "How on earth are we going to get to sleep if this is what it is like at the weekend around here?" Vive la Kemptown Carnival!