A tour around my neighbourhood...

Thought I'd give you all a little showcase of my home town of Peckham Rye.
This first pic is of our house at 82 Clayton Road, where I live with Ange, Gabriella, Nicoline and Laura. It's cool living on the corner, behind that brown fence is a very large (by London standards) yard, and I have harvested my first snow peas, strawberries, spring onions, basil, chives and coriander from my little veggie/herb terracotta pot patch. Ange and I share a massive room on the 1st floor, those 2 windows you see facing the street are our bedroom windows. It's a fantastic house, and I absolutely love Gabriella and Nicoline, they are super housemates. It's cool that we get on so well and do stuff together because Ange is away quite a bit.

This next pic is of my friend Mahmut, who I pass every morning and every evening on the way to and from the train station. He doesn't speak much English, but it's pretty cool having our hellos and little chats every day.
I met him on my first day in Peckham. I was waiting for Ange, and went to buy a banana cause I was hungry. Then I just said "Hi, I'm Amy, I've just moved here...and how do you cook that?" pointing at one of his weird veggies. We've been friends ever since! He usually gives me a banana or a tangerine each afternoon. There are 4 brothers working this little grocery shop, from 7am to 10pm, 7 days a week.

So this is the Peckham Rye High Street. The famous red buses trawl up and down all day, and the street has such a social, community, village type feel to it. I do all my fruit and veggie shopping in the little shops like the one below. I've not yet been tempted to buy the fish, however, which sits out on the street side tables in the open air all day long!















The next pic is of the Peckham Rye Farmers Market, at the end of the High Street, about 2 mins walk from home. This is on every Sunday morning, and is mostly an organic, locally grown produce market. Lots of cheeses, breads, fresh fish, veggies, cakes etc. My favourite stall is run by a couple from Barbados. They are really cool, and make fantastic homemade vegetable fritters, creole style, and also the most delicious vegan fruit breads, with big chunky free samples!

And lastly, our local, the Clayton Arms. This is where I watched Australia's ill fated world cup match against Italy, with a Moroccan man called Saeed. He's one of the Clayton Arms 'family'. This place really is the quintessential English pub, where everyone knows everyone. Saeed goes there every single day after work. By the end of the game, I knew not only his life story, but also that of Jo behind the bar! I've been back a few times since with Gabriella, and Saeed always insists on buying us a drink.

So there you go, my English home!