Monday at the Apple Market of Covent Garden was fun! It was antique market day and most stalls were selling expensive looking items including silver cutlery and hip flasks, antique and hand-made jewellery, as well as rare hardback novels.
Until 1973, the central Apple Market housed the largest fruit, vegetable and flower market in the city. It reminds me of the screen in My Fair Lady when Audrey Hepburn sings, …lots of chocolates for me to eat…
(It is my mum’s all time favourite and I watched it over half a dozen of times before I turned 12!) Covent Garden Piazza was re-opened in 1980 and it is to be the capital’s biggest craft market.
Most stallholders are very friendly and do not seem to mind the endless questions from tourists. Some of them even posed for me while I was taking snapshots. I could not resist walking back to the stall that sells beautiful old hardbacks.