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Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Up the Elephant!!


Wife and kid away in Ireland, nothing to do last Sunday so I decided to check out the 'Carnaval del peublo' in Bermondsey, a Latin American extravanganza!

I walked from London Bridge down towards Elephant & Castle and then down to East Street Market, a traditional London street market, fruit and veg and loads of stalls selling cheap socks, clothes and other poorly made essentials, a dying breed! And then further up Westmoreland Street Market, a throwback to dickensian times, bric-a-brac and nic nacs sold by the poor but cheerful locals, see http://delsarto.wordpress.com/category/il-castello-e-lelefante-elephants-project-and-westmoreland-market/ for some great photos.
From here I walked to Burgess Park for the carnival, which was great, good food, beer and music.
Bored with London, Ha!

3 comments:

gee said...

i hate the elephant, they got the ugliest people ive ever seen and what a shit hole

Alan Wylie said...

Jesus! it's not that bad, there is a vibrant latin american scene and a great polish cafe in the shopping centre.

gee said...

Its like a Mike Leigh film, you know a study of Dullards