To Market, To Market

Yesterday I visited the famous Camden Market... well I thought it was only one market...

but then I found another...

(this market is built in the former Midland Railway stables and horse hospital. If you're not interested in the stalls, its still a great place to learn about the history and admire how they've kept all the old stables and structure of the underground arches used by the railways. They have magnificent statues and sculptures of horses and stable workers, reminding us of the former uses.)

and another!

There was another small fruit and veges market that I didn't take a photo of.

I was slightly disappointed with these markets as even though they had some good stalls and shops, they were all pretty much the same. Selling the same clothes (and trust me, there were a lot of clothes stalls), same jewellery, same souveniers, same chinese take away food, same handbags... etc. But having said that, there were some outrageous yet unique (in a weird way) stalls that I didn't expect to see there like: different coloured and sized bongs (?), tatoos and piercings, punk clothes shop with disco lights and music blasting out of their speakers, goth and emo clothing that looked like it was from Buffy the Vampire or the Matrix with accessories to match, vintage styled home furniture and clothing and random stalls like a '15 pound per hour piano lesson' stall. Some areas of the market smelt of incense burning which came from the tribal, hippy stalls selling tie n dye clothes, plaited headbands, hemp necklaces and more.

I definitely prefer Spitafield Market where nearly every stall is unique but definitely not weird. Camden markets is better if you prefer the gothic, emo, punk, hippy, alternative culture :) which unfortunately is not my cup of tea. But Camden Markets, if anything, is definitely considered a tourist attraction so its worth going there at least once... even if only to be entertainment by some of the bizarre yet interesting things you may find there! Who knows, you might just discover your inner goth or hippy self and get a piercing or two! :P