Germany is known for its farmer's markets. Every little village, town or city have these markets where farmers bring their fresh produce of fruits and veggies to be sold. You also find fresh eggs, cheese and other dairy products, meat and fish also sold at these markets during fixed days every week. The bigger the town, the larger the market. Lohr am Main has its weekly markets every wednesday and saturday. As our's is a little village, there are barely 3 to 4 farmers coming over very week.
On Saturday we were at Nürnberg. The large open air market with the colorful produce and bright red striped umbrellas made for a very pretty sight. It also was surprising to hear the vendors call out to you loudly, inviting you to taste their fresh fruit!!!
Pretty soon I was tempted not to taste but buy the papaya, a fruit which grows in abundance in our backyards back home in India. Fruits which are a staple diet for us back home is considered to be exotic in European countries, hence they are also expensive to buy.
Apart from all things bright and beautiful like above, you also find pretty hand crafts made of wood, glass, cane or ceramic, wines, liquors, conserves, fresh flowers for your loved ones, ornaments etc. I pretty soon realized that we needed an entire day just to explore Nürnberg's market. I do plan to return there soon..:)
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I love Farmers markets - so full of fresh produce!
ReplyDeleteOh I was totally going to guess the raspberries...but papayas are YUM too! I love them with a little spritz of lime...though here in Thailand they're so sweet they don't even need it...
ReplyDeleteWonderful market - wish I could taste it all! :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I miss the German Farmer's Markets in Bremen they were there everyday but Sunday! It was always a beautiful sight full of color and excitement.
ReplyDeleteWe have one here in my tiny town every Wednesday and Saturday.
We've got the markets here too..ours is on tuesday and saturday. I love walking around all the tables to see what everyone has. Love your vibrant shots!
ReplyDeleteI love Farmer's Markets and I love the colors in your photos! How was the papaya? We used to live in S. Africa and had wonderful papaya. Now that we're back in the states, the papaya is not so good.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, I like the colors and details of those beautiful pictures. Greetings from La Mancha.
ReplyDeleteLove the farmers market. My favorite thing in germany is in the fall when the farmers bring the apples to the market square and make fresh apple cider.
ReplyDeleteLove the farmers market. My favorite thing in germany is in the fall when the farmers bring the apples to the market square and make fresh apple cider.
ReplyDeleteSo colorful, May! I love farmers' markets and I could spend hours and hours just lingering. :)
ReplyDeleteI love farmer's markets!! The fruit looks delicious! I just tried papaya again and liked it! Such a fun fruit!
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