Abbey Road + Portobello Market

We spent Sunday walking down to Portobello Markets. The trip took us straight down Abbey road (which our street turns into) which obviously is home to Abbey Road Studios, the recording home of the Beatles classic album of the same name, along with most of their other material. It has been, and continues to be, utilized by a huge number of amazingly successful artists including, Shirley Bassey, Sir George Martin, Pink Floyd, The Police, Kate Bush, Radiohead, Blur, Gomez, Manic Street Preachers, U2 and Coldplay. It is also home to the recording of more movie soundtrack than you can poke a stick at.

I think the best time to have worked in the studio would have been 1967, when the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in Studio 2, while Studio 1 was home to Pink Floyd were concurrently recording The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Would have been a very interesting 6 months or so indeed.

We also walked past Lords, home of all things cricket, but that has a big fence and grandstands around it so we couldn't take any photos of the cool media centre building there.

Portobello Markets is a fantastic mix of antiques, nic-nacks, fresh produce and prepared food. apparently it is the largest antique market in the world, or so the website says. We had a great falafel from a little Egyptian stand called The Happy Vegetarian, which was absolutely brilliant. Also found a good coffee from a fairtrade cafe, but still nothing on what Melbourne of Hobart have to offer in the coffee stakes.

Gotta run
Pete