Saturday laiki - Green

It started as a little project to get 'greens' pics for Sandra Madsnapper.

I visited the Saturday laiki and we photographed stuff. I'm not in all of them because I'm the director, and I was kept rather busy signing autographs today. At the laiki, K9s they have seen in abundance - cats on Donkeys, not so many.

Now I have edited the filming to 60 photos. F assures me that's too many for one post, so after some thought we have created 6 arbitrary groupings and will post one group a day till we run out.

We started here. F always buys from them - grapes this season, best apricots in the market in early summer, broccoli and oranges in the winter. Pavl and his sister grow their produce near Corinth. Way over on the left are their grapes from 100 year old vines. (Beyond that is the souvlaki grill I could smell as we approached the market street....mmmmm)

As you flick through our scenes this week, multiply by about 5. This market stretches for nearly 10 blocks. Before coming here we couldn't begin to imagine this much fresh food being available all in one place in a city. Where we came from it was all curated, packaged in plastics and arranged on supermarket shelves (or we had to grow it ourselves).

We go through another market like this on our way to work on Tuesdays. F knows where there are also Thursday and Friday markets only a little further away. 

Peppers - the slightly hot kind (some are, some aren't; they are a kind of Russian roulette)

F takes cotton bags she made herself to pack the stuff into, and lunch boxes for lentils and rice and olives. Between that oddity and a cat riding on her Donkey, I get the impression she might stand out a bit in the crowd.....

The only thing we couldn't find today were olive vendors. They sell lots of different kinds from big plastic barrels. There are usually 3 or 4 just within our end of the market - today none. Strangely.