Market Madness

Hi Lovers! The stress of the end of the term is gone now and Winter Break is FINALLY here!! To celebrate my first day of holiday freedom I decided to go on a market crawl. My three course market meal started with the pop-up Christmas market at More London near Tower Bridge. There were some cute trinkets and homemade items at the stall, but I was really just warming up for my next stop. 

I continued down the Themes walk to what is probably my favorite market in London so far... Borough Market. Borough is a Foodie's heaven and I love going and eating my way from stall to stall 

 

On this occasion I was lured to a stall advertising "Drunk Cheese" and found this delicious treat. I think it will be perfect with a nice red wine or better yet a nice porter!

 Some other goodies I found include an AMAZING lamb and mint burger and Christmas beer from one of my favorite stalls Utobeer!

Full from Borough but ready for dessert, my next stop was Spitalfields Market in Shoreditch! Pictured below is the iconic Christ Church just across the street from Spitalfields. 

A busy Spitalfields with all the Christmas shoppers

My last purchase of the day came from this giant pile of scarves...

...I found these lovelies for just £1 each!

 Back on my side of town and just one more picture of Tower Bridge to bring my day full circle....

 Such a wonderful and leisurely day was the perfect start to what I hope will be an adventurous Winter break. I have some great trips planned and I can't wait to share them with you. Til next time! 

Sticker Warfare 2.0

This past Friday I watched a pretty interesting documentary. Completely by chance it was about the street art phenom that was/ still is taking place around the world; the phemon that I seemed to have covered just the tip of in my last post. "Exit Through the Gift Shop" shows the life of some of the people who have become notorious for their art and trials of their expression. It also has an interesting twist. I caught it on Netflix, it not too long ago hit BluRay in America though. Check out the trailer and a word from Banksy (Director of the documentary and street art revolutionists) below.

Sticker Warfare

All is fair in in love and war.

.. I guess stickers are no exception?? As I've been walking around DC for the past few weeks/ months I've been noticing stickers...everywhere. Some pretty cool ones at that. I was on a walk in Adams Morgan today and just took some pictures of some I came across.

The trend is a great expression of art, politics, social issues, and of course self. Its also a lot cooler to see a sticker on the back of a street sign than tags on the sides of buildings. Philly has murals, maybe DC will be known for its stickers?

Maybe an "Unraveled" sticker will be coming soon