This weekend Dun Laoghaire, the nearest town to where we live (just ten minutes walk away) had its annual Festival of World Cultures. It is a pretty big festival, with musical acts and vendors from all around the world and it goes on from Thursday to Sunday. Over 200,000 people were expected to come to visit the festival this year and I'd say that got every bit of that if not more. Dun Laoghaire is great location for this kind of festival as well, just by the sea (above pic of Eric by the pier).
Here are a few pics from the festival on the Saturday - exotic dancers on the promenade above...
and a pic of the Falun Dafa group from China (check out the girl sitting facing away from the group on the right-hand side. Eric thinks she was sent to the bold corner after she was caught bopping to the music instead of meditating calmly like her comrades).
They also had a lovely little funfair (more pics in Part 2) with this huge ferris wheel. We'd have liked to have gone on it but Eric overdid on the icecream and spinning around at a great height just didn't seem like the wisest thing to do.
They also had a lovely little funfair (more pics in Part 2) with this huge ferris wheel. We'd have liked to have gone on it but Eric overdid on the icecream and spinning around at a great height just didn't seem like the wisest thing to do. 
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We went to the Lawrence County, Ohio fair with Ceci this summer. It was the worst county fair I have ever been too...cheap carnival rides and tobacco spitting, tatooed rednecks...yikes. We always like to see the livestock but at this one, all the goats looked identical, all the cattle the same, all the pigs.....it was nightmarish. The best thing there was a real camel that Julia and Hannah rode.
hey therese, were the tobaco-spitting rednecks in stalls with the cloned cattle & sheep ?
the ben
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