Yes!!! It is always fun when you bring us back to the city! I loved clicking over to your post to see what you were up to for the day. Ah, yes! The good old days. Still so glad you blitzed before Covid.
Admittedly, I have been to a couple of those little street vendors. My mom used to say that I shouldn't be so proud of it. I try not to be!
You are probably the only person I know of that has covered the city, inch by inch. Rain or shine, winter, summer, and everything in between. We have free paper usually at the Metro bus stops and the Slug lines and sprinkled downtown. It was always worth a read. :) Or not, but, it was free! As for the farmer's market? If it was afternoon, it might be the end of the day but before that, it might have been predicting rain. That seems unusually small.
I love that you take us along! It is always fun and certainly very interesting! We appreciate it!
#MarketFriday began as a way to reach out across the globe and learn about different cultures through their markets, especially local markets and farmers' markets, and eventually branched out and evolved over time from straight shopping to a cultural affair as it highlights how we differ and then again, how much we are alike. We have become a melting pot of culture, but it is still the Rituals, Festivals, food, architecture, and even your language/languages that separate us... Along with the fact that these things are normal for us. There are unwritten rules that rule our social behaviors. I see this as allowing for increased tolerance between cultures and nations, and opportunities to come together on an even playing ground. A strong culture can be beneficial to a country as it promotes unity, especially during a crisis, peaceful debate, and open dialogue. I have learned so much about all of you and it has been an amazing experience. I can only hope that learning about each other can help us work together for a peaceful world.
Thank you for being a part of #MarketFriday
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as for the street vendors when I used to travel a lot more all over the world people used to stay stay away from street vendors, but did I listen no way I liked to try it all, luckily I had a strong constitution back then and never had issues
Funnily enough the only time I got a variant of Delhi Belly was when I moved to NYC, my stomach had problems for the first week here, and as one colleague said to me, its because i had been eating all the crazy risky street food in my travels it was in shock at being given good food LOL
OHh yeah when I first got to NYC and trying to adjust to having weekend off I was lost with what to do with myself, so I picked up a subway map and set a goal to walk past every subway station in the city and ticked them off when I did complete them all I decided why not keep going and walk every street in the city and started shading in the areas I covered, wish I had kept that map, when I finish it looked quite colorful as I had a set of highlighers with 7 colors and used a different color depending onthe day of the week I went on the walk
when I finished that I
Wait!! You didnt finish the rest of the story, JJ!! @tattoodjay
Oops I just meant to say when I finished that I just kept walking the city