Oi! May 24, 2008
Since the sun was actually high in the sky today I decided to make my way over to Camden Town. Sheila had told me there is a market there on the weekend where “people my age” hang out. This sounded promising. I took the bus over because the Underground is a complete mess this weekend due to the Bank Holiday on Monday. When I got off the bus I was swept into a crowd of what seemed like a million people. It was absolute chaos. I guess since it’s a holiday weekend everyone and their mom decided to come out. There were in fact lots of people my age, but the market wares weren’t quite what I was expecting. Though there were some pretty awesome music stands selling old albums, and some pretty nifty clothing shops, most of the stands looked like unlicensed Hot Topic Stores. I must have had 10 people come up to me and hand me fliers for tattoo and piercing shops. Now, I’m certainly not one to shy away from this kind of stuff, but it all seemed a little… fake. Like everyone was trying REALLY hard to be punk. Maybe I’m just being a pessimist. Take a look for yourself…
When I was in London, I almost got a tattoo in Camden Town because I wanted to have something to remember London by, but the 70 pounds didn’t seem worth it, so I got a henna tattoo for 5 pounds instead. I think Camden Town is better on Sundays also.