My favorite part was to no surprise... the food! Any kind of food you would ever want they had. They also had some strange choices such as burgers and meatballs made out of wild boar (which is pretty common here), kangaroo, ostrich, and even zebra!
Our friends ended up getting pasta and cookies for dessert, since the free samples were so good. They give out a lot of free samples which is nice and I definitely took advantage of it by getting more and more every time something new was passed out.
Tara and I wanted to eat something a little different, that's not so common in America, so we found a baguette stand and bought a pork and apple baguette with chili sauce. It was so good and we had to get dessert after of course and decided on Bailey's and Chocolate cheesecake which was delicious too!
Borough Market is a food market, but we have also been to Portobello Market, Deptford Market, and Camden Market. These markets not only have food, but also have clothing, jewelry, accessories, antiques, among many other novelties. Portobello Market is in Notting Hill where the movie with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts was filmed.
It is a really cute area of London. All the houses near the market are in pastel colors like pale purple and yellow. It also was a huge market and just went on and on for miles. While looking around, I found a journal I liked in one of the shops at Portobello Market. I wanted a leather journal with a lot of character and most importantly, one that didn't have pre-printed lines on the pages. I ended up getting a red leather journal with an old fashioned hook lock and a key sewn onto the top. When I opened it and it had blank pages, I immediately knew I had to get it! At the same shop, Cailin got sandals from Topshop for only 1 pound, which was a huge bargain. While we were there, we also got the most delicious Nutella and coconut crepes!
Another day, we went to Deptford Market. It's in the town next to our college so we ended up walking there. It has fruits, vegetables, fish, and a lot of flea market clothes. Cailin got a sweater that has playing cards as a design on it for only 3 pounds. It's really unique! Saturday is when all the markets are fully running and all the stalls are open, so every Saturday we seem to find a new market to go to.
The next Saturday we went to Camden Market. It is also extremely big. We were there from noon until 5pm and didn't even get through half of it! It also has a lot of clothing, accessories, and unique finds if you dig around a little. Cailin and I got two scarfs for 5 pounds. Mine was yellow with zebras all over it and Cailin's was pink with skulls, the US Flag, and the Union Jack on it. There are also a lot of nice restaurants in Camden so we took the opportunity to try the UK's version of an American Diner. Fittingly it was called "The Diner". We ordered Cubans and chocolate milkshakes. It was all soooo delicious! Now I can stop dreaming about milkshakes every night haha! Even though we've been to a lot of the markets in London there are still a lot more that we have to go to!
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