The Earl's Court in London is roughly defined by its proximity to the Earl's Court Tube Station and the Earl's Court Exhibition Center. It's where visitors from overseas - especially young Aussies on their round the Northern Hemisphere gap years - tend to fetch up when they first arrive in London. It's where the local hotels are filled with business people attending trade shows at the exhibition centre or tourists on tight budgets.
It's also one of the most cosmopolitan and genuinely multi-cultural areas of the city. No one ethnic group predominates - Chinese, Thai, Philipine, Greek Cypriot, Jamaican, Lebanese, Italian, Polish, Irish, South African, American, Canadian and British all mingle peacefully and add to the local vibe that's straight and gay, raunchy and mundane.
All those influences are represented in the month long Earl's Court Festival, that will fill outdoor venues, public squares, private homes, theatres, cabarets, pubs, restaurants, shops, school and church halls from now through the end of July.
There's free music afternoons in the tube station ticket hall, a street fair you can just about make if you are in the neighborhood on Sunday, art shows, performances, a Strawberry Summer Tea on Wednesday in Earl's Court Square, an Arm Wrestle Challenge at O'Neill's Irish Pub and on and on. Pick up a festival brochure if you're around, or visit the Earl's Court Festival website to see what's on and plan ahead.
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