Maya

Maya is one of at least three jewelry shops in this small street-​shaped arcade so luckily they all stand out for various reasons. The bright colours in the jewelry always attracts me to this shop. Many of the silver necklaces are made up of connected coloured oval shapes that I haven’t seen in many other shops. I’m not sure if this is a regular range or just in for this season. The majority of necklaces, bracelets and earrings are sterling silver, so good quality and a bit pricey. A good place to find a gift for someone special.

Maya always puts me off going in for two reasons, every time I walk by it and look in the windows I never see any staff, and the second is due to the metal bars on the door. Irrational I know, as I deduce the bars are for break in preventative measure purposes, but I’m not the most rational of people when it comes to bars on doors and deserted shop floors. Lucky for prospective consumers there’s a large window display of the jewellery, and it all twinkles delicately at you as you contemplate breaking past the barred door. Silver and silver gemset pieces seem to be the jewellery type of choice in Maya, and with this the sale season still upon us there is a bargain to be had for all of those who didn’t quite get the right thing in the jewellery department this yuletide. Twinkly, shiny, sparkly. There are three full walls of all these types of jewellery to choose from, and despite being displayed in a rather mundane way, it shouldn’t put you off trying out the actual product, as they really are very pretty.