Well, after my over-excited update from last night, seven hours later the snow is long gone and now it’s just bitter cold.  Oh well, it’s actually quite autumnal and nothing made me feel that more than the Apple Day and Borough Market near London Bridge.

I hadn’t been to Borough Market before although Londoneater did a great two-part post about the place.  It’s in one of my all-time favourite parts of the city, right on the south bank, next to the Globe and Tate Modern, and all but directly under the Tower Bridge.  The market itself is huge (and thankfully covered as it was raining the day we went) and I’m not sure if it’s generally closed Sundays or not as only about half the stalls were open.  But those that were took part in celebrating the apple theme of the day.

As I said, it had been raining pretty heavily on the way over so as soon as I made it to the market (no easy task – finding it was no problem but getting anywhere quickly was more of a challenge as enormous crowds were being led from the Globe to the Market by volunteers in Renaissance period dress) I grabbed a cup of hot apple cider and proceeded to enjoy the smells of the market.

For lunch, Sarah, Steve and I all got the irresistible looking “hog roast,” a delicious roast pork (we could see the remains of the actual pig on the fire pit behind the stall), thick apple sauce, spinach and some cracklin on a warm cabatta roll.

The more difficult decision was in what to eat for a sweet.  One vendor had an array of absolutely stunning desserts, including some meranges the size of my head (pictures coming soon).  I was finally tempted into a sugar high by the candy makers Burnt Sugar which had some very unique kinds of fudge and candies.  I had the relatively ordinary chocolate fudge, treacle fudge, peanut brittle and coconut clouds but then mixed it up with some of the more surprising flavours – chocolate chili fudge, chocolate and ginger, and chocolate and sea salt.  Don’t worry, it was just a bite of each!

I would love to go back to the Borough Market but it would be a tough place to do my shopping as it’s so far away from the flat.  Apple Day was the perfect introduction to the market and a delicious way to get into the Autumn spirit!