Store Design and Visual Merchandising - #14

Today we went to walk around the Southwark area. We all met at the London Bridge Tube Station and walked to the Borough area. I finally got to see  Borough Market! I've been wanting to go there along with Anna, Kelsey, Emily and Mary but they went over the long weekend while I was in Paris. It's mostly a food market and since we went in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, it wasn't all that busy. Apparently they have other things besides food, like clothes, but I didn't see those on our quick walk through. I had just eaten lunch too so I didn't get to eat anything but I might have to take a trip back there before we leave London to try some of the food. Mary said that they have really good grilled cheeses at one of the booths. 

After Borough Market, we walked along the River Thames. I had already been in this area twice before but I didn't realize where we were because we started out on the opposite end. We walked past Shakespeare's Globe Theater again and Jose gave us a little history on it. Apparently the original one burnt down shortly after Shakespeare's death. For the longest time, there wasn't a building there. The current one was built 20 years ago and is a replica of the original. It was built by an American actor, who was appalled at the fact that there wasn't a building there to commemorate the Globe. 

Then we were standing by the Tate Modern Museum and it started pouring down rain so we ran inside for a few minutes. According to Mary, Brad Goreski was at the museum the same time we were! But we didn't see him. After that, we walked down the river to the Gabriel's Wharf area. We looked in all the little shops there. It's full of craft store and boutiques. There were a ton of recyclable and environmentally friendly items in the stores. They were all very small but packed full. Some had clothes and shoes, but not all of them. Accessories were very popular, though. A couple of the stores were very hippie-like. The area around the stores was very cute. It was a little square. On one side were the shops and on the other were restaurants. There were table and chairs in between. This is one of the few areas in Southwark that hasn't ended up in the hands of real estate developers. 

After we explored this area, we walked across the Hungerford Bridge to the tube station. Then we headed back to our flat.