Sometimes it's nice to just hang around London, instead of trying to get away with the rest of the population for the Bank Holiday weekend.
There was a break in the rain on Monday, and we decided to head over to Camden Market (photo by Ben Wedmuller on Flickr). A magical place which reminds me a lot of Kensington Market in Toronto, except with Moroccan and Chinese food smells replaced the fish and cheese smells.
Did a lot of shopping and we are slowly indoctrinating Adriana into the joys of consumerism, but it's still hard to convince her to walk around aimlessly for 3 hours without the promise (read:bribe) of either something delicious to eat or some sort of useless toy. We spent most of this trip listening to her drop her "magic magnets" on the pavement over and over. It is advertised as: "powerful magnetic,when you toss them in the air and they tumble down,clicking like cicadas or bees. Fascinate your friends!!" But in reality, we were not fascinated, we weren't remotely amused as the sound these things made when they were tossed was more akin to having someone chuck a bagful of marbles at your ear - very loud and very painful.
Any way, barring any hearing loss, after putting a dent into your respective credit cards with clothes and clocks, we proceeded to Marine Ice for some great pasta and Italian ices. (except for Larysa who couldn't find any flavour she could live with - this girl's hard to please!)
There was a break in the rain on Monday, and we decided to head over to Camden Market (photo by Ben Wedmuller on Flickr). A magical place which reminds me a lot of Kensington Market in Toronto, except with Moroccan and Chinese food smells replaced the fish and cheese smells.
Did a lot of shopping and we are slowly indoctrinating Adriana into the joys of consumerism, but it's still hard to convince her to walk around aimlessly for 3 hours without the promise (read:bribe) of either something delicious to eat or some sort of useless toy. We spent most of this trip listening to her drop her "magic magnets" on the pavement over and over. It is advertised as: "powerful magnetic,when you toss them in the air and they tumble down,clicking like cicadas or bees. Fascinate your friends!!" But in reality, we were not fascinated, we weren't remotely amused as the sound these things made when they were tossed was more akin to having someone chuck a bagful of marbles at your ear - very loud and very painful.
Any way, barring any hearing loss, after putting a dent into your respective credit cards with clothes and clocks, we proceeded to Marine Ice for some great pasta and Italian ices. (except for Larysa who couldn't find any flavour she could live with - this girl's hard to please!)
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