For the truly brave, there are the car boot sales. These are not markets; they are mystery boxes on wheels. Held in fields on the city’s edge, a car boot sale is where families dump everything their attic has hated for thirty years. I once found a VHS tape of “Titanic” (the 1997 one) next to a taxidermy squirrel holding a nut. The squirrel was £5. The tape was free with purchase. I almost wept.
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The key here is early bird timing. Get there at 7 AM, and you’ll find treasures. Get there at 9 AM, and you’ll find someone else’s discarded “treasures” and a lot of sad, dusty lamps. The best part? No Wi-Fi. You have to use your brain to imagine if that dusty globe is worth £3. (It is. It’s always worth £3. Gloves are optional.)
