London Weekend Day 3: Camden

Camden is to London as Venice Beach is to Los Angeles or as Haight/Ashbury is to San Fran. It's basically a street vendor haven, with jam-packed shops with junk and cheap souvenirs galore. It's a magnets for tourists and a place where you can definitely find the weird and wonderful.

There is a canal that runs straight through the busiest portion of Camden where the water levels are controlled manually in order to let the boats pass by. Along the canal are these great little eateries specializing in exotic foods from around the world. I met up with my friend Greg once more in Camden and we enjoyed some hearty food from the Hong Kong getup. I had a veggie tofu stir-fry with some noodles. We ate our meals on two of the many neat and colorful motor-scooter seats which stretched along the canal sides.

One of the most fascinating stores in Camden was Cyberdog. The entrance of the store was guarded by two imposing shiny colossal robots. Inside, we were no longer in England, but in some crazy bondage-wearing techno club of the future with black lights, loud bass music, odd clothing, and nipple baring fetish mannequins. The workers, both sexes, had florescent mohawks and buzz cuts, futuristic face jewelry covering one or both of their eyes, and were clad in the bizarre rave-wear of the store. I liked it. Pictures were unfortunately not allowed inside.























♡ - Kristen