After a month of plenty of rest and relaxation, with various New York City adventures along the way, we have now moved into another apartment just around the corner from the first (thank you craigslist) and will be here in Brooklyn until we return to the UK mid-August - although we're trying very hard not to think about that.
One of the best ways to spend a warm Saturday or Sunday afternoon on this side of the East River is at the Brooklyn Flea - a cool and kitsch collection of market stalls which pops up out of nowhere each week, offering everything from vintage baseball bats and suitcases, to 1960's toy soldiers and 1930's Brownie cameras*. At the edge of this maze of wallet tugging delights, lines of hungry bargain hunters form in front of local street-food vendors who churn out some of the best eats the city has to offer. Fresh and zingy Vietnamese summer spring rolls loaded with delicately steamed shrimp and crisp bean sprouts, slow smoked pulled pork sandwiches oozing with home made BBQ sauce, steaming bowls of aromatic Indian curry, piles of giant, gooey chocolate brownies, snow cones shaved from crystal clear blocks of ice and flavoured with various sugary cordials - no wonder it's one of Brooklyn's most popular weekend hangouts. Plus, if you head to the Williamsburg site on a Sunday, you get an awesome view thrown in for free:
* All of which we have actually purchased. Fortunately, as round-the-world-travellers, we get double the baggage allowance!
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