Portobello!

Last Saturday I was at one of London’s “most see”s: Portobello Market at Portobello Road in Kensington.

This is a wonderful place to spend a Saturday (if it is not rainy of course!)

The street market is only held every Saturday but the shops are open six days a week. Shopkeepers or people doing business in there call the place as the world’s largest antiques market. The claim might has been true before the financial crisis that led to the closure of many shops in the famous street, but not anymore..

Anyway, the street and the items you can find in there are still very interesting, varied, usually cheap, for all age-groups, beautiful and sometimes unexpected!

Me at Portobello! Isn’t it good and useful to be tall and to have long hands?! I don’t need anyone to take photos from me!

You can actually find a vast range of items from old and original cigarette cards to old aircraft speed indicators or Nikon cameras built in 1930s! a wide selection of country goods, old pop and rock music CDs and also antique silver items and traditional or new jewelry (many of them fake, by the way).

You will also see guitarists, violinist or folklore musicians at each corner of the crowded street.

Many other aspects of the street are just a wow..In one word, this is a street you must see, not a place to describe easily!

This house is the place where George Orwell lived for many years. I don’t know if Portobello market became Portobello because of him or He became such a famous writer because of the amazing place! Or neither!

Ahh, by the way, I could also spot the most beautiful hippopotamus on earth at Portobello.. wowww..