Leeds Waterfront Festival 2016

This year's Leeds Waterfront Festival has expanded.  There were events dotted all around the cities.  It may have something to do with being Leeds-Liverpool Canal bicentennial year.  I went to the dragon boat race last year at Clarence Dock and so this year we opted for the free canal boat trip and the brass band at Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills.

We got there later than we planned, and still managed to got on the first boat trip, lucky!  It was a 12-berth canal boat, unlike other boats I had been on before.

After we got some lunch from Armley, we had our lunch with the Otley Brass Band playing.
With a flash of coffee, we were feeling quite middle aged!

When they took a break, we took a break too.  We decided to walk along the canal into town and see other activities.  We came across the 'junk' boats.

There were live music, magic shows, dance troupes and comedy all by the water front.  It was fun.  I hope they keep it up next year!