London Day 3

The sun hadn't start to melt the ice on the street when we left the hostel for the third day in London, a day with ambitious plans. Our guide suggested us a visit to Portobello Road, so that was our first destiny. It's difficult to calculate the lenght of Portobello Road Market on a saturday morning – for us it seemed to have at least two quilometers, but the fact of being really difficult to move on the overcroweded streets might have influenced our perception.
Portobello Road Market is a paradise for collectors. Antiques, rare random items, design pieces, everything is there. It's difficult not to find something that seems like an interesting purchase. Nuno started to negotiate some old cameras, but no deal made. The only deal in Portobello Road was a demand from our starving bellies – the typical brownie. We ate, it was so awesome that we bought more for later, feeling that we wouldn't eat anything better ever!
From Portobello Market we went to Camden on the other side of the city. Nuno had been there befire, but every time in Camden Market is a new experience. Again the croweded streets were there, but Camden is less variable than Portobello Road, that has a specific day when the market is “mounted” on the street.
For the ones that were never in Camden, the best option is to see the pictures published with this post, because it's difficult to explain or to compare to something that we know. The shops – tattoo, shoes, comic books, watches, clothes, and so on and so on - all with decoration outside, the “alternative” environment everywhere, the restaurant's area... everything deserves a second look because everything there is original almost reaching the weird.We ate chinese food, bought amazing new camera scarf and blouse for Martyna and a watch for Nuno, entered the underground and headed up towards the center of London to take some missing pictures in our portfolio, and to visit Buckingham Palace. To get there, we went through St. James Park where the squirrels take almost all the attention from the tourists. Picture in front of Buckingham Palace? Check. Visit to Downing Street? Check. :) - Time to go to see the best view to the city of London from London Eye at best time – sunset. After some wait in the line we got to the giant wheel that is like a 40 minutes visit to the city of London, something that – and only focusing on main points – doesn't take less than one week. To add to the stunishing view, there is all the information about what we see in the horizon in this tablets. London Eye is expensive? Yes! But it is tottally worth it, and as we said in beggining, the best time is in sunset time. In 40 minutes, the sun hides, the night falls, and it is possible to see London at night, our last night there...