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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