Still slightly stunned by walking down two flights of stairs (really rather more like a carpet covered ladder) and finding ourselves immediately across from an Italian coffee shop - actually two - complete with relaxed customers in the late morning sun. Temperature today 22 in the shade. One of the market’s busier days, with more vendors than a weekday and plenty of buyers from farther afield enjoying the outing, some accompanied by dogs looking delighted to be included.
Tube to Kilburn High Road, our regular spot in past years for shopping as well as alternative theatre and early suppers. It hasn’t changed much but seems to have faded slightly in contrast to the liveliness of our new home. Still has two pound stores. And there’s still Aldi, home to some surprisingly good wine as well as J’s favourite Danishes. Note too that they now carry pastéis de nata, Portuguese custard tarts. Wonderful, but not all created equal as we discovered in Portugal. We’ll save them for next time. Still very long queues in Aldi as well, or rather one long queue moving pretty steadily and ending in a long bank of self service checkouts. Faster it seems, though no thanks to the likes of us. Being philosophically opposed to them - and also lacking experience and quite possibly intellectual inclination - we contrive to take at least three times as long as if we’d had a cashier. Well, there’s always next time.
Pick up a lovely hot chicken on the way home and have it with salad, and of course the pastries.
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