Columbia market dates back to 1869, originally a covered food market of 400 stalls. Nowadays it is stalls on the street and in hidden courtyards that appear only on Sundays. Plants, flowers and bric a brac all on sale, with the traders encouraging you to buy with their sales pitch "beautiful roses, just like you my lovely, 2 bunches for a fiver" ... how can you resist.
Long may they live!
ReplyDeleteI'd find it very hard to resist.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't resist. If I lived near there I'd be buying all sorts of stuff from the market!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be able to resist! :^J
ReplyDeleteNow flowers are not cheap way down here: the cheapest are perhaps $8 and that is common flower with perhaps 4 stalks. Roses start at $20 for 6 stalks ... $8 is close enough to a fiver ... so this market is actually selling flowers at half price ...
ReplyDeleteI wonder what his sales pitch is when the shopper is a bloke like me.
ReplyDeleteWill forever wonder what he was looking at.
ReplyDeleteThat's just my kind of place!
ReplyDeleteThat man sure is loaded down with gold jewelry. I guess the flower business is pretty lucrative.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope "they" do not allow it to die out completely.
ReplyDeleteI'm such a sucker for those kinds of sales pitches:) Lovely flower market and capture!
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