Date published: 2005/03/28
You have to see the Bank Holiday Market at Bourn Airfield (10 km west of Cambridge) to believe it. First of all you have to get there by car (so it's amazing the chattering classes haven't closed it down), and there are queues just to get in and out. There are two long strips (perhaps a mile in length) with stalls along both sides and people packed in as if it were Oxford Street. Unlike (some of) Oxford Street, it's C2 heaven, you'd be hard put to spot a single ABC1 person anywhere in sight. So it's the kind of goods and atmosphere, not to mention the food, you might expect. At least one of the traders was honest: "We can't be beaten on price because it's all been nicked". The butchers provided the best entertainment value, with classic sales patter as they sold large piles of meat for (they claimed) next to nothing. Well worth the 50p parking price if you can put up with hordes of people getting in your way.
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