Camden Market, 2022

After a day of idling, researching/planning further adventures, blogging, and binge-watching Bridgerton, we decided to head up to Camden Town and the Camden Market, where we had great fun in 2021. Somehow it just wasn't that exciting the second time. It's a year later, almost, and the crowds have returned. Big crowds, and all in COVID-denial. Maybe best to do Camden on a weekday. We looked around a bit, snapped a few pix, and then decided to walk back to our apartment. Awaiting us, en route, was one of the great architectural surprises of this campaign...

I'm still awaiting the Second Coming of the leisure
suit...

Arcade scene

Typical

Ditto

Kangol now into weirdness

Street scene

Imperial foot-long

Gin-infused bubble tea can't be far away

And now the surprise: I bet you've never heard of Egyptian Revival
Art Deco; neither had we; but there it is, the former Carreras Cigarette
Factory, built in the 1920s, when Egyptian and Turkish cigarettes
were all the rage, in some places...think "I'd walk a mile for a Camel"...

Thus; note Egyptian-type imagery

There it is; Carreras went out of business years ago, but the
building was restored in the 1990s

And is now Greater London House...an office building

Greater London House...home for a number of well known firms;
but, ever more interestingly, figures in the BBC mockumentary
W1A, which satirizes BBC management; even more interestingly,
W1A stars Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham to some of you); read
up here and here and you'll know even more about all this than I do