The colourful Portobello Market is London’s most famous street market, best seen on a Saturday morning before the gridlock sets in. It’s full of antiques, jewellery, ethnic knick-knacks, second-hand clothes and fruit and veg stalls. Petticoat Lane is East London’s celebrated Sunday morning market, but it’s overrated, overpriced, and appeals only to those so bleary-eyed from the night before that they think they need broken chocolate bars, ugly trinkets and cut-price cans of Ajax. Brixton Market is a cosmopolitan treat made up of a rainbow coalition of reggae music, slick Muslim preachers, halal meat and fruit and vegetables. Its inventory includes wigs, homeopathic root cures, goat meat and rare records.
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