You may have visited London on a business trip, but taking just a little more time getting really acquainted to the culture of the United Kingdom is worth preparing for on your next visit.

A real trip to the UK would engage all your senses not only to the sights, but to the sounds and the scents as well. And your trip would be incomplete without stepping into London's Larder-the Borough Market.

Whether you are a gourmand or not, the Borough Market is worth the stop as you will feel stepping into the Medieval Ages as you walk under the stone arches and sturdy grey stone walls cast in iron barrel vaulting gilded in ancient timber and iron brackets that could be about a thousand years.

The Borough Market is said to be in existence as early as AD 1014, allowing merchants from all over the country and Europe to converge in its halls to trade varied fresh fish, grain, cattle, and vegetables.

The adventurous at heart will try the other European flavours that begin with the sea salt caramels that a pack costs a pound.

The market experience will be incomplete without shrilling sounds of the trains rolling above you as you munch on the L'Artisan du Chocolat sea salt caramels, which could cost more at the foot of Knightsbridge.

Be ready to taste in the crunchy pork roast sandwich, the truffles that come in varying flavours, but the fresh whites evoking the tastes of Alba, Spain.

Bring the special sausages from Toulouse and the chorizos from as far as Iberico, Spain; the very exquisite Parmigiano Regianno to the honey-roasted pecans and chili-roasted macadamias.

Linger at the Borough Market, take in the sounds, the lively banter, get bemused by the exotic possums and even make a new friend exchanging recipes of fresh venisons

Let your sense of adventure guide you on your next trip to the UK and be fascinated all over by the fusion of the cosmopolitan, the Medieval and the Victorian lifestyles for a week or more.