Day 2 Of The Godiva Festival. Well the rain stayed off and it was a glorious warm summers day, that got us out to the festival. We found our spot along the Kenilworth Road to watch the very colurful procession of dancers in costumes and drum beating marching bands, lots for the eye to take in. Our friend's son Nathan (above left) was in the procession today as part of The Coventry Sea Cadets entrance. Gotcha Nath !After the procession it was time to go home to put spritzer away in the cool before we headed back down to the park. By this time the good natured crowd had swelled to the thousands. We spied our friends and there entourage from Kent known as The Dogs who had come up for the day by the main arena taking in the dog show and making merry with gallons of beer. :-) Time for a photo shoot of them all and the usual banter with Coventrys own infamious Jonny English (sorry Jon) doorman of the local Rainbow's Gay bar.
We mulled round the many music tents which where playing a variety of music, rock and hiphop being the most prevalent today. It got a bit sweaty in the tents with lots of unabashed young men walking in and outside half naked. I would have joined them but I don't have the figure for it now days I'm pushing on forty five now and have eaten to many Cornish pasties to be taking my top off. It was nice to see many good natured groups of revellers sitting out in the sun with cool beers soaking up the sun and the atmosphere of the event and generally having a good time.
After all the heat and sweat we then eyed up some nice cool frozen yoghurt that went down a treat in the warm weather. A quick look round some stalls and stands before then heading on to the funfair to gape at the thrilling rides and marvel at the bravery of those joining them.
The custom of getting lost in the crowd soon ensued and was hellish being on my own as I don't normally do crowds well. Technology let us down today as the sheer number of calls and texts from the park made communications abit slow and when we did get through could not hear each other over the noise. Eventually fate and good chance saw us reunited but by this time we were both very tired. So we then decided to quit and leave the more engergetic crowd to enjoy the evenings entertainment of Coventrys top band The Enemy followed by The Furry Animals who I had to asure my mother were not pets.
Sunday is more of a relaxed day at The Festival mainly jazz, folk and choirs. So may pop along for the last day tommorow.
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