Kensington Market

6 January 2010By Zhu 15 Comments

Past Chinatown, we ended up in another cute multicultural neighborhood: Kensington Market. The eclectic shops and cafés are stuck between Spadina and Little Italy. We spotted Latino, European, Middle-Eastern and North African shops.

There was an artsy feeling in the air. Murales, graffitis and trendy hippie chic clothes, along with numerous bikes and narrow streets that – gasp! – can’t probably be navigated by car easily.

This neighborhood reminded me a little bit of some New Zealand cities such as Christchurch or Queenstown: relaxed and easy-going, with a thing for organic and homegrown food and promoting a somewhat alternative lifestyle.

Bikes On Spadina	Graffitis
Tease Who?	Skyline From Spadina
If The Environment Was a Bank...	Pothead Ad
Murale	Nuts
Street Signs	Bike Parked
Geisha	CN Tower And Shops
Stop Sign	Small Alley

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barbara said:

Salut Zhu,

Hey, this is the FUNKY part of town ! FUN !!
The types of signs and advertising in a place tells you a lot about the type of people who live/ frequent the place.

This feels of course young,perhaps student,artistic,and original.

# 11 January 2010 at 5:34 am

Seb said:

This looks like my kind of place! I love bikes That parked bike looks very funky, I wonder if someone put it together or if that’s how it was made. Has the banana seat, which is very cool…
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