Travel theme: Street Markets

There is something about a street market that makes everything look, smell and taste just that little bit better. From colourful markets on the sunny streets of Central America…

street market central america guatemala antigua

…to chilly floodlit flower stalls on London’s Embankment…

street market flowerstall london embankment

…street markets are just plain fun. There’s nothing predictable about them, which is what I love. Chaos reigns supreme. Street markets don’t have a bread aisle and a hardware section. Here, all bets are off. Freshly picked fruit rubs shoulders with the unlikeliest of bedfellows…

street market raspberries blueberries berries

…such as umbrellas, drums and spices.

street market umbrellas

street market drums

street market spices

I think this would make a wonderful travel theme and I’d love to see your take on outdoor markets, so if you’d like to join in, create your own post about markets between now and next Friday, title it “Travel theme: Street Markets” and put a link to this page in your blog post to make it easy for others to find your post.

If next week’s WordPress weekly photo challenge is Street Markets I’ll be more than a little weirded out. 🙂

xxx Ailsa

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