Apple Day

Back in October, Borough Market had Apple Day. It was a celebration of the Harvest in general and the Apple Harvest in particular. I met up with Clara and another friend, Shane, to check out the festivities.

The day was sharp and cold, but the sun shown brightly with not a cloud in the sky. A rare thing for London! It was a Sunday, so other than the festival, Borough Market was fairly quiet, which was nice.

All around the Market, people dressed in traditional garb wandered about handing out fliers for the day's events and selling random bits and bobs to take home.

Every stall in the festival area sold something which involved apples. In this case (Chegworth Valley Farms), it was ALL apples! Apple juice, fresh apples, even hot apple cider! I bought a bottle of plain apple juice to take home. It was the most delightfully sweet, crisp, refreshing and tasty apple juice I've ever had! Nom! Nom!

Here's Clara, camera in hand, as usual! Behind her is the mushroom stall. Actually, I don't think they had any apples at that stand. But I suppose since mushrooms need harvesting, they were allowed.

There was a stage area where they put on a play by Chaucer. Hilarious! I laughed soooo hard! The actors were fantastic (They should be as they are all players from the Royal Shakespeare Company!) and the costumes were amazing! The play alone was worth the trip.

Yeah, I was a little obsessed with this apple stand. They even had an apple/beetroot juice. Clara liked it, but Shane said it tasted of dirt. Well, that's beets for you.

We finished up with a sandwich lunch at Pret and dessert from the French Patissiere stall. They had no apple tatin (more's the pity), so I made do with an apricot tart. It's a terrible job, eating an apricot tart, but SOMEONE had to do it!!!