The Markets and MJ

Mum's three favourite things are markets, food and flowers, not necessarily in that order. S0 naturally we spent the (last) weekend combining these loves, and went to Borough Market on Saturday, and the Columbia Road Food Market and Camden Markets on Sunday. All are so amazing, I preferred Borough for obvious, food related reasons (e.g. the gluten and dairy free cake stall), but there is nothing like listening to proper cockney's yelling about how cheap their flowers are! Camden was great as usual, (I found Cookies and Scream, a gluten-free and vegan cake stall, I had a milkshake and a cookie!), and I found some books to add to the dorm-room library. Which is the windowsill in the kitchen. And only has Harry Potter books.

Borough Market
London Bridge / Borough
Four huge markets to make one big one. All with different types of food. Fresh fruit and vege, meat, groceries and ready cooked cakes and lunches. HOLY lord. Heaven. I had Mum's new pro camera so went a bit nuts, but I wasn't the only one. I didn't include the photos of this, but there were was a wee rabbit strung up ready to be bought, and some weird looking meat stuffs that even I cannot appreciate.

Skate park next to the River Thames

The view of St Pauls

Outside the Globe Theatre

Pieminister. Good pun

My mortal enemy

!!!

These were huge

The map in cow form

F&V

Purple cauliflower

So fresh they had their nippers tied

Gross liquorice stand

Herbs and Spices

Columbia Road Flower Market
Bethnal Green
Despite much sighing and rolling of eyes from Dad because I didn't technically know where I was going, we finally found the long Columbia Road, which was packed from left to right with flowers, trees, herbs and everything in between. I don't think anyone could not like it here, it has so much excitement and yelling, and the shops lining the street are really good too, if you like knick knacks and semi-useless stuff. Which I do. For some reason I didn't take the good camera here, so here's some photos from my trusty iPhone, which I think is on its last legs.

Camden Markets
Camden
These famous markets are not as awesome and unique as they used to be, but for tourists like us (even though I'm technically a resident), they are still pretty impressive. You can buy almost anything you could possibly want, especially if you're in the market for tattoos or have lots of piercings. There are a few funny characters hanging about, but that adds to the charm of the area. I went the weekend before with my dorm mates and we found a small but amazing food market, so I took Mum and Dad again, Paella all round.

Busy busy!

Thriller
The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
A trip to London isn't complete without a West End show, and due to my small obsession with the King of Pop, Mum and Dad treated me to Thriller! I didn't know what to expect at first, if it was going to be a play or just be music? It ended up being the latter, and was very very impressive! It was a selection of songs from The Jackson 5 and the Jacksons and then Michael's solo stuff, sung by four different singers and a troop of back up dancers. No-one was pretending to be Michael, which was good, but they were all unique and had phenomenal voices. The dancing made me realised my moonwalk is not as amazing as I previously thought. Will have to get practicing. Anyway, if you get the opportunity, and you like MJ's stuff, you should go. I'll go with you if you like! No photos allowed, so here is my snap of the outside of the theatre.

The Theatre!

(wo)man in the mirror

I did do one sneaky one of the stage

So many photos! X