I’m starting to realise I am a man of simple pleasures. I’ve pretty much just wandered around Greenwich with a huge grin on my face about all the gluten free stuff I’ve just bought. I apologize to anyone in my home town of Darwen, Lancashire, who might be aghast at the last sentence, it doesn’t really fit my with working class upbringing.

Anyway, after ordering my Christmas turkey from the superb butchers Drings, http://www.drings.co.uk/ , I then headed to the wonderful Greenwich market. At the market I had a lovely chat, with a lovely man, with a lovely beard about gluten free cupcakes before then having an equally lovely chat with a lovely man, with lovely hair about gluten free sausages (insert own innuendo here). After that I had a gluten free crepe. Amazing. I’d not seen the cupcake stall before but apparently Ms Cupcake, http://www.mscupcake.co.uk/, has been there for a few weeks and is planning on opening its own bakery in the town.

I do love the undercover Greenwich market and it seems to have had a reprieve after there was talk of it being torn down and being replaced with a Bluewater type complex. No matter how determined I am not to spend any money I always seem to do. Yes it is probably over priced and yes it doesn’t seem to sell anything that I actually need but that doesn’t seem to stop me coming home with something completely unnecessary. The market also has a website which if by magic can be viewed here http://www.greenwichmarket.net/ .  

The only downside with the market is that it is full of cobbles and if you have read my previous post on Rome, http://www.rockupandroll.com/post/477422051/a-roman-holiday , you will know full well my feelings on cobbles. It can also be insanely busy, so I recommend you go early if you are going to go to the market on a weekend. If you are not from Greenwich then you can get the DLR in to the centre of town, just get off at the Cutty Sark stop or you can get the 188 bus all the way from central London or you can get the Thames Clipper, all of which are wheelchair accessible.