V - A Beautiful Sunday

~ A Beautiful Sunday ~

'Twas a beautiful, sunny, PERFECT day to visit the Colombia Road Flower Market nearby. 

Though it didn't start very perfectly. :P I overslept and delayed the plan by an hour. Not my brightest moment, but that didn't stop the day from being thoroughly enjoyable.

My flatmates and I headed to the market which took place only on Sunday mornings. The friend who knew the way to the place was joining us at the market place itself, so the rest of us relied on the ever faithful knowledge of Google maps. :P After a point it got pretty easy finding the place as we saw people walking away from a certain direction carrying bouquets and pots of flowers. 

Many such "Sherlock Holmes" observations later we found ourselves greeted by an acoustic band right outside the area for the flower stalls. It was noon by now, yet there were so many people around. I went crazy with my camera, and ended up getting left behind quite a lot, but there was so much to take in that I didn't even notice most of the time. I managed to get some lovely shots of the day.

We squeezed through the crowd, admiring the flowers of the stalls on either side of the road. Even though there were so many people, not to mention their dogs around us, the air still smelled so fresh. When we reached the other end of the market, we treated ourselves to some ice-cream and relaxed in the autumn sun shine. 

After a bit of vintage shop surfing and actually purchasing some flowers, we had spent almost two hours at the market without even noticing it. Tired and hungry, we decided to head to Bricklane for some bagels. It was close by and fell on the way back to our accommodation, so the plan seemed pretty suitable. Some of us went back, while the other more enthusiastic bunch went forward to explore busy Bricklane on a Sunday. I was one of the latter of course.

I'll tell you about that bit in the next post, otherwise this one will become too long. Got some more pictures coming your way. Ciao.

 While maneuvering through the crowd. 

One of the bands at the venue. 

Just a regular Sunday for this man.

I found her so chic.

My favorite picture of the day.

A picture of regular London.

The group of us! :)