Camden Market

"Punk's not Dead" in Camden


West African Food at the Camden Market

Yesterday was Bank Holiday in England and I had a very good day. While most people were at The Notting Hill Carinval, I avoided the crowds and had coffee with a wonderful person that I met at the ATLA conference and who is the director of a Theological Library in Chicago. She is the editor of a journal to do with Theology and Librarianship and I am going to try my hand at writing a book review. What I enjoyed most was the coffee and conversation, however.

Later I headed up to The Camden Market for some street food. Camden is sort of a bohemian, multicultural, goth, punk, slightly dirty, slightly seedy, artsy part of London. The market is located right next to the Canal and occupies a large building that looks like horse stables. The food is hot, ready, ethnic and not too expensive. You can get everything from Thai, Brazilian, Lebonese, African and on and on. I got some food to go and then sat by the water to read a book and enjoy it. Oh yeah and I saw a few Punks as you can see in the photo at the top but this is not an unusual sight in Camden and North London.