Glebe Markets

Glebe Markets is on every Saturday from 10am to 4pm on Glebe Point Road, in the playground of Glebe School (hence assorted glimpses of grass, bark, and yellow-lined tarmac). It's an enjoyable hotch-potch of local designers and artists, new and vintage items ("it's mainly for girls", I overheard one passing hipster say disparagingly to another), hats, bags, frames, sunglasses, plants, and designers like Bree Pash and Gingham and Heels. There's also some food stands (Mexican, shown below, and interesting hollowed-out bread rolls with hundreds and thousands, which I think were Hungarian). I came away with a robot necklace.

Marrickville Market

Marrickville Market runs every Sunday from 8am to 3pm at Addison Road, Marrickville (right next to Reverse Garbage). On a sunny day like today, it's the perfect place to wander indolently amongst the eclectic mix of stalls. It's essential to start off with a huge, freshly cooked and juicy bacon, egg and mushroom roll from the bacon and egg man; but there's also a huge selection of other food options, from gozleme to tofu burgers, dim sum, Mexican wraps and char kway teow. There are also clothes, bric-a-brac and jewellery stalls (as well as a couple of stalls which I confess I didn't really understand) and, if the mood takes you, a place to get your hair cut (the Young Master below looks as though he'd rather be on the bouncy castle). While there, I ate the aforementioned "BEM" roll and drank a sugarcane and lime juice as well as a freshly made lemonade, and I came away with the following into the bargain: a packet of henna (dark red); a packet of saffron spaghetti and a sachet of roasted capsicum sauce; a bottle of hot chilli wine from Disaster Bay Chillies; a jar of "Lemon Stinger" chilli marmalade; and two muffins (spotted dick, with a rich, unexpected lode of vanilla custard right in the centre, and apple and cinnamon) from a stall which bakes them by steam – how moist, how delicious!