A wordy post today.
On Sunday bf and I drove to the Piccadilly market in Geelong, an hour out from Melbourne.
Enjoyment is probably proportional to how long it takes you to get there. If you're in the area, go for it. In Melbourne? Make sure you have some other reason to be there as well. Otherwise it's a long drive that will probably take twice as long as browsing the market does. We were pretty tired from the drive even before we started browsing, though walking the wrong way up the street in 30degree weather probable didn't help. We found the market eventually.
In saying that it is a nice reasonably sized market with decent selection of local craft and goods. Its also located on the north shore a hairsbreadth from the bay, so nice scenery.
We'd anticipated the need for some extra incentive to make the trip worth it so came prepared with a picknick lunch (courtesy of the bf - he's a sweety). We found a nice little tree and ate on the waterfront. Nom nom.
Conveniently there was also another local market on along the waterfront and a vintage car/bike show the 'Geelong revival'. So it turned out there was no shortage of things to do and see.
There are also several antique wholesalers in the area. We stumbled into one and felt like we'd wandered into the 1940's. And the building was massive. While by then we were pretty tired the Brougham street markets was probably the highlight of the trip. We'll have to do it again sometime.
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