Day 44 - Camden Lock, Brick Lane

Today I had a great time visiting more markets. I thought that the Covent Garden Market would be my favorite market, but I am really beginning to have a hard time deciding what I like most. All the markets are so different yet similar. This morning I visited the Brick Lane Market. It is located a couple of blocks down from the Spitalfields market. I bought a DVD player for 5GBP and 2 movies. I then took a tour though a couple of really cool adjacent markets which had awesome ethnic foods and crafts. I really thought that I had found the neatest market yet...until this afternoon.

This afternoon I went to Camden Lock. When we got off at the Camdentown Tube Station, we faced 2 markets. One had a lot of clothing (mostly hip teenage type stuff) and bags etc. The other had a mix of souvenirs and such. They were really nice. After we finished those markets it was still early so we decided to walk up the high street and check out the sales in the local shops. There were some really cool shoe stores and goth clothing outlets. And just as we were getting to the end of the road we came across another small market. This market was the Camden Lock market. The market hall had a lot of really nice handcrafts and gift items. After looking through the hall we noticed that the market overflowed onto the patio so we walked out there to check out what we thought were a couple of more shops. As it turned out, it was the beginning of a massive market. I was amazed by the number of really cool shops there. This market has to have close to 300 shops. IT is one of the places that I will make sure to bring anyone who comes over to visit because it was so cool. It all runs along a canal which has little narrow boats in it too.

In addition to having so many cool shops, it had an amazing assortment of food choices. Everything looked so yummy! There was something there to please the palate of anyone who goes. I ended up eating Venezuelan corn cakes with beef & chicken & cheese and it was incredible. I didn't realize, however, that there would be 20 or 30 more food stalls just around the corner with all sorts of ethnic foods.

I did manage to take a couple of random pictures today, so I will post what I have when I get the chance tomorrow.

I need to get some sleep now, it has been a LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG Day.

Night!
~Jenn