Friday, May 29, 2009

To Market To Market, but no fat hogs!

Last weekend several friends got together to explore the local market in a typical Saudi town about 45 minutes from where we live. I can share the photos with you, but not the full affect of shopping in the morning temperatures of about 45 degrees celsius (translation - 113 degrees fahrenheit)!


Lynne & Michelle shopping for baskets

Produce for sale


Pam buying a basket


I guess the umbrella prevents sunburn???

Drinking plenty of water prevents dehydration - and heatstroke. I could suggest a few other precautions, but then this isn't my culture.

We thought we'd discovered the garden of eden at the covered produce market. The small grocery store on our compound is sadly lacking in variety of fresh produce.

The watermelon was delicious, but not seedless.
We bargained hard (part of the fun with the local culture) and loaded up our wheelbarrow of fresh produce - no loonies required for this shopping cart.

Brian & Doug - basket lids make great shade hats.
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3 comments:

Matt Dalton said...

Hi, I am planning to walk from Chester in the UK to Rome in Italy with my dog to raise money for charity this year. I would appreciate it if you would check out my blog:

http://roamintoromewithroman.blogspot.com/

If you wouldn't mind, it would also be a great help if you could tell as many people as possible about my plans as I would like to raise as much as possible!

Thanks

Matt

May 29, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Allison said...

Mike and I laughed so hard at the pictures of the women under the umbrellas & others drinking lots water to prevent heatstroke!! So funny. The market looks really cool!

May 30, 2009 at 6:47 AM
Nana M said...

This was most interesting and fun to see the contrast in life styles.

June 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM

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