Buying Clothes Happy Birthday Auntie!
With all the hand washing of clothes we do and the severity of the soap on the clothes and the hot hot sun taking color from them, after 6 months we are in need of things. You can have new made as there are many tailor schools here and many tailors. If you are having a tailor make your clothes be sure and see how they put the zipper in and you can tell if the rest of the garment will be made. I haven''t seen a zipper foot for the sewing machines here so the tailor uses other skills. So rather then hassle with that we went shopping in the GAGA market where people buy bundles of clothes take them home wash and iron them and put out for sale. Everything in our closets we packed up before we left probably beat us here and is cleaner then I ever got it
The market has thieves too that follow you to pick your pocket so we are told that you go and look then you come back and buy as prices go down if you walk away and come back. I took some pictures. The market in the 1st pictures is a temporary one market. They set it up until 2pm and then take it down because it becomes the fish market from 3-6.
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| NEED A BELT? EVERY SIZE IS HERE |
The market has thieves too that follow you to pick your pocket so we are told that you go and look then you come back and buy as prices go down if you walk away and come back. I took some pictures. The market in the 1st pictures is a temporary one market. They set it up until 2pm and then take it down because it becomes the fish market from 3-6.
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| FRESH NILE FISH |
That is when the trucks with fish from the Nile come. Tom is not a big fish eater so we haven't tried it yet but I have a friend who is, so soon, we will try that. But, the fish smell lingers on the display racks(? see picture) so we are hesitant to buy clothes that already have a faint fragrance and then sweat in them to add our own. You can see by the size of the market that there are a lot of choices. One of the other volunteers has walked me around so I kinda know a few things but not all. I think I can spot a pickpocket though...
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| SEE A SHIRT YOU LIKE? |
I did not get all the pictures I hoped and we did not get any clothes as the hot hot sun is still draining our energy away when ever we are out in it. But we did look, and didn't get pick pocketed. Some more shots of Africa...Marcy
