A day in Camden Town is one of my favourite ways to spend the day. A catacomb of shops and smells and characters and food stalls. Even better on a sunny October day. Gothic, Vintage, Tribal, Punk and any item that may be categorized as Alternative...you'll find it there.... A buffet of international cuisines.
We wander endlessly through piles of multi-coloured and multi-feathered hats, trunks and battered leather luggage that will soon become coffee tables, records, cds, winding racks of
outlandish faux fur... leather jackets to Hello Kitty sweatshirts to summer dresses, a myriad of shops selling everything in a really colourful, deliciously smelling, and crowded way. The novelty factor probably comes into play but I love spending time in London. I love the tube.
I love the cacophony of different languages that greet you everywhere. It feels like a real cosmopolitan city. And as if one market was not enough, as the november sun disappeared in the early evening we wandered to Portobello as they packed
away. The day was finished off with dinner at one of my favourite restaurants – the Grand Bazaar just off Bond Street. A tardis of a restaurant whose exterior belies the Aladdin’s Cave of lamp-lit Moroccan delicacies within.
I agree - although we stay in Kensington - we go to Camden (on the tube, of course)as it is such an attractive place to wander. Not sure living there would be so great - busy, crowded, have to queue for everything, PARKING - Aaaagh! Defintely good to visit.
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