Green Market, Cape Town

Most towns in the world have marketplaces I suppose, but not so in Norway. Vegetables and flowers used to be sold at markets in bigger cities until recently, and some coastal towns have fish markets. Travelling for Norwegians often means: check out the local market! The selections of goods for sale will normally give you some information about the place you have reached. Sometimes a boy has to follow his mother shopping. I suppose Green Market is not the worst place to go for that purpose. But our intention was merely to look. Green Market is not green, trades no vegetables, but basically more or less useful souvenirs, and some clothes. Loads of small jade figures can be bought here, some of them quite nice. I would think jade gave name to the market. Marius glanced at the created animals, while I would have preferred some small boxes. More seriously we looked at the wooden made salad equipment, but even that was finally left behind, though Marius suggested one piece after the other. At two points we really felt like buying. I regret we didn't buy some beautiful spoons, and we stayed by the wind chimes for a long time. The chimes were actually tuned - that's is a very good idea - and some of them, particularly the big ones with deep notes, sounded like heaven. We thought we would come back and buy things some other day. I don't think we did, but the visit was nice and we talked to many of the sellers. Afterwards we left for the Internet-café if I remember right.

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