Markets

The other day I went around with Stein to meet a friend of his in Camden. First I met him at his building which is an LSE (London School of Economics) dormitory on the South Bank of the Thames, from which you can see St. Pauls Cathedral.

We walked to the underground station and on the way there passed through the Borough Market, which was this really cool open air food and ceramics market. There were people selling all these different kinds of homemade jams, cheese, bread, and like at Trader Joe's there was quite a bit of taste testing available.

We then took the tube to Camden, where there was another open air market. This one was more about hats and tee-shirts that said things like, "Dolphins are gay sharks." I wanted to try to find a shirt with Sid Vicious on it, but the only Sex Pistols shirt was one that I already owned, Never Mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols. Then we walked around Camden for a bit, it really reminded me of South Street in Philly, there were a lot of goth British kids with chains and heavy eyeliner and mohawks. There was one very normal looking middle aged man with his beard dyed neon pink. Just his beard...

Later, we walked to meet Stein's friend and passed a bunch of skate boarding parks, I guess that is really big here, I see them all over.

So Last Night I had my first ever Fish and Chips! It was delicious- with a screwdriver. I went out with Stein and a bunch of his friends from LSE, about 7 guys, so I felt Right At Home.  4 were from GW, and we really just talked about the mutual friends we had there. Then the talk turned over to the Superbowl, so I peaced out. This semester is looking pretty familiar.