Old Cloth

Between curiosity about the city I’m now living in and research for Trippist, I’m frequently learning new and interesting facts. Today’s discovery is that the lapjesmarkt (fabric market) that I’ve gone to on any number of Saturdays has been there on Breedstraat since 1597. 1597! Caravaggio was alive and painting then!

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Success!

One of the Chinese markets over by Hoog Catharijne (on Achter Clarenburg, next to Blokker and Xenos) had not only the baking soda (Arm & Hammer, no less!), but they also had black-eye peas! I didn’t see the Karo (or any other light corn syrup) there, so I still had to go to the British [...]

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Okra!

Okra!
Originally uploaded by indigo_jones

Look at what I found today! Happy joyous day!
I’ve been to the outdoor market on a Friday and on a Sunday, but I’d never been on a Saturday. Turns out Saturday is the best day of all. So much lovely stuff! I found one veggie stall that had all sorts of lovely [...]

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Market Day

The other week, during my first trip to the farmer’s market, I had seen some lovely looking shrimp. I’ve had shrimp on the brain ever since, and today I decided to head back over and get some for dinner tonight. I talked G into going with me, and we soon headed out.
After a quick stop [...]

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Fabric and Flowers

This morning, despite the drizzling rain, Pippo and I went out to explore the stoffenmarkt (fabric market) on Broodstraat and the flower market at Janskerkhof. Both are Saturday institutions that I’ve been wanting to see since we’ve been here, but somehow have missed until now.
First we headed over to Broodstraat (the other house we came [...]

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