http://happymedium.co.uk/happy/britomart/ Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://happymedium.co.uk/happy/britomart/comment-page-1/#comment-150 happy medium » Blog Archive » A taste of home Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:56:20 +0000 http://www.happymedium.co.uk/?p=423#comment-150 [...] This ones for my boy El-V and all the Asian Invasion. This weekend really reminded me of Leicester, as Diwali (Der-waa-lee as Kiwis mispronounce) was celebrated here in down town Auckland. There’s actually a far larger Indian population than I first realised. After having a superb Indian meal from Oh Calcutta in Parnell (which would stand up to anything Ive had on Leicester’s golden mile), I headed down to the Britomart where the celebrations were being held. Loads of food stalls, two stages, big crowd - of course nothing to the scale of Leicester but a little taster of home on the other side of the world. [...] [...] This ones for my boy El-V and all the Asian Invasion. This weekend really reminded me of Leicester, as Diwali (Der-waa-lee as Kiwis mispronounce) was celebrated here in down town Auckland. There’s actually a far larger Indian population than I first realised. After having a superb Indian meal from Oh Calcutta in Parnell (which would stand up to anything Ive had on Leicester’s golden mile), I headed down to the Britomart where the celebrations were being held. Loads of food stalls, two stages, big crowd – of course nothing to the scale of Leicester but a little taster of home on the other side of the world. [...]

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