Trip 49

January 19, 2025

Marylebone has a farmers market on Sundays between 10 am and 2pm. It’s really for locals, not a huge affair, but it spans several long blocks and parts of several adjoining blocks ; it’s held in the area of St Vincent’s & Aybrook Street, ending around Moxon St. It’s pretty chilly this morning at 36°F (2°C) , so we have a brisk 15 minute walk to get there.

We arrived about 11 am and there was already a good crowd browsing the tents, which had fruit and veg as well as baked goods, fresh eggs, cheeses, seafood, fresh squeezed fruit juices, some ready to eat dishes in enormous skillets (smelled delicious), fresh mushrooms.

La Fromagerie (wonderful cheese shop) and the Ginger Pig (lines outside both) on Moxon St were busy, and we took a turn left from there to go to Paddington St Gardens where the playground was active with children from the area. Leaving the Gardens, we walked up one block to the High Street and on back towards our hotel.

We turned right at the corner of Aybrook and Moxon and walked up towards the High Street, where there were a surprising number of retail stores open on a Sunday.

Lunch time took us back to the Seven Dials area, where we’d been the day before yesterday for our Humble Crumble and went into the Banana Court to explore (and eat).

Nearby is Neal’s Yard and sooo many restaurants, small shops and coffee shops and the Hotel Chocolat.

Neal’s Yard Dairy had an unfortunate event in 2024, with the theft of 22 tons of cheese, worth more than £300,000. That’s a LOT of cheese to steal! Though they have not recovered the cheese, they have made an arrest.

It gets dark here so early this time of year, with 5pm seeming like it’s 9pm.