Transported To A Tantalising Taste Of Thailand

Today should have been our usual Sunday food shop followed by our customary pint at The Horseshoes but being the advocates for 'living on the edge' that we are we decided to shake thinks up on this occasion.
On one of our local websites we'd seen that today was earmarked for a "Magic of Thailand" festival at Mote Park just outside town. We'd attended a similar event in the town last year in the slightly odd surroundings of a leisure centre car park, where we'd also taken some images, but this promised to be on a much more expanded scale and hopefully would be a source of further photographic images for our blip journals.
So the decision was made to go for our pint at The Horseshoes first to help loosen up our photographic muscles (at leas that was our excuse!) before heading to the festival with the food shop just having to wait until later in the day. What rebels! 
When we arrived at Mote Park and paid our entrance fee (£6.00 - which we considered as a bit of a bargain afterwards) we were greeted by something that really was on an utterly different scale to that which we had experienced last year. It must have been at least ten times the size with a large stage, clothes, fabric (a wonderfully colourful close-up of which can be seen in my third extra) and drink stalls with, at conservative estimate, at leat 30 to 40 food and drink outlets (who's wares we of course we had to sample - we chose some delicious crispy pork skewers and beef meatballs in a properly spicy sauce). It really was an assault on the senses - a riot of colours, sounds and smells.
My main image was taken looking towards the main stage where the singer was belting out a song and the two ladies were dancing in the foreground - a particularly like the 80's power pose of the lady in the gold top! 
My first extra is of a vibrantly pink tuk tuk with a plethora of themed parasols in the background where you could pose for a selfie. I'd noticed a baby in its pram emerging from behind it and in my slightly overactive imagination looking like he or she had just finished taking a turn at the wheel! :-) The hand on the left hand side of the image thrusting a pair of minuscule white trainers into the frame was just pure happenstance!
My last image was taken outside a food stall purveying all things mango as it seemed like a father was comforting his daughter who looked as if she might have been slightly overwhelmed by sensory overload.
It was was quite an experience and we really did feel like we'd been transported to a tantalising taste of Thailand!