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Thursday, March 25, 2004

The other day we went to the big open market here in The Hague. It's a tram ride away, and totally worth it. It's like a combination of a farmer's market and the random swap-meet stuff that you would find in a market like the one at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, or in Southeast Asian cities: batteries, weird random used furniture (including mattresses!), AC adapters, etc. The interesting thing is that it doesn't seem to have a tourist slant at all-- I saw no souvenir-type stands. It's mostly brown folks shopping there, or 'Turks' as brown people seem to be generally called here. (I understand that there are lots of actual Turks, but I think it's a catch all for anyone Middle Eastern when referred-to as a group. We'll see if I'm on point about that.)

I loved it. Being as koriput as I am, it's a great place to get vegetables etc. for super cheap, and they look much better than the ones that I've run across in the supermarkets so far. Dari also discovered frites, which he totally wolfed down, and poffertjes, which I totally wolfed down. Basically they are tiny pancakes slathered in tons of sugar and butter. My cholesterol goes up just thinking about them.

Dari enjoying the frites zonder at the market

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