Melbourne’s lovely Vic Market

I’m an absolute sucker for markets partly because there are so few back home in the UK. There’s a wonderful farmers’ market in my neck of the woods in Wye, but only every fortnight. Other than that it’s off to London to go to the gentrified and deeply overpriced Borough Market by London Bridge Station.

Melbourne’s Victoria (Vic for short) market is an entirely different kind of beast, a popular gathering for food, drink and everyday sundries that is supposedly the largest market in the southern hemisphere. There’s everything from tourist tat to pet food, didgeridoos, bush hats, some very weird clothing… and food. Gorgeous fruit and veg, sparkling fish, fancy looking meat (crocodile or kangaroo anyone?) If you go to Melbourne you have to go to the Vic Market. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Note, too, something that is rapidly disappearing in the UK: a real sweetie shop, of which there seem to be millions in Oz, including one in Sydney called The British Lollipop Shop.