Marco's Kensington Adventure

On saturday.. Fiona, Ghazaleh, and Marco when on a trip to Kensington market.. It started a little slow because we went out waaay too early for a saturday morning. It picked up once we got ourselves downtown out in the cold air though.

It was a familiar route, going through the Grange, walking along Dundas, and reaching Spadina. Normally I would stop here and turn left or right on Spadina... for my Chinatown adventures, but not today! Our quest is for Kensington, therefore we were to continue down Dundas for one more block. Before we continued though.. we realized there should be a green ear right near where we stood. Looking around .. we spotted it on a green pole across the street. Quite strange, I must have walked through that intersection hundreds of times and I've never noticed it... how could I miss an entire green pole with a green ear on it?

We dialed in, the story was about the street cars on Spadina.. it wasn't too exciting.. I was more entertained by the shouting match happening behind us between two men in different languages, I don't think they really understood each other but that didn't stop them.

From then on it became a GRAND ADVENTURE. We quickly dropped our original plan of splitting up to cover more ground because we realized there is much fun to be had with the three of us together. We listened to each story, and with each one we would try to find the location where it had occured (if it still existed). Along the way we met some very friendly people who told us their stories, we also met a woman that was... well... quite insane, yet quite entertaining.

The story that entertained me the most was one that we found somewhere along Augusta. About a boy who grew up in the area and witnessed an incident in a meat shop where two butchers got into a heated arguement and one of them brandished his holy butcher sword (aka. butcher knife.. cleaver.. etc.) and chased the other around yelling "Cease your fleeing heathen, such that I could banish you from the realm of the living with mine holy weapon of meat cleaving!!!" ... actually I have no clue what he really yelled, but I'm sure my guess is quite close.

I liked this story because it was funny, and it called up some familiar scenes in my own memory. When I was younger my grandmother would take me to street markets for groceries, I suspect the old Kensington market to be quite similar to be quite similar to the various markets in my past.

P.S.~ have some photos in the link.. i hope it works