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A TOUR OF MARKETS 🏬 #dogladysden #PhotoFriday #Photography 📷📱 #market #marketplace #travelogues Share on X ►
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OLD TOWN MARKET, SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA
The shops and boutiques of Old Town San Diego are a top destination for ceramics, jewelry and other handcrafted items. Featuring a festive atmosphere, they capture the cultural history of San Diego. The Old Town San Diego Market offers galleries and a Southwestern-style marketplace.
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GROCERY STORE IN NEMI (ROME) ITALY
This deli in Nemi, a suburb of Rome, has everything beautifully displayed. The area is known for wild strawberries, from which they make liqueurs, preserves, etc.
CARPET MARKET IN KUSADASI TÜRKIYE
From silk worms to hand-woven finished product, this carpet factory is a one-stop shop!
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These are fabulous markets Debbie. I never got to San Diego when visiting California. I would have liked to see their world-class zoo. That Italian market has so many items – I’d stand there for hours checking everything out. I was in Ephesus too as a one-day tour on a Greek cruise. It was so amazing to think of an entire city unearthed. Our ship was docked in Kusadasi but I don’t remember going to a market of that type – I wish we had but I would not have bought a rug either. We never visited Patmos. On the last day of our cruise, our tour guide took another single passenger in the group and me ashore in Mykonos to see a friend of his. We spent a night going to different places to eat/drink and the friend bought Anthony (tour guide) and Lynn and I each a fancy container of figs. I had never had figs before (except a Fig Newton). 🙂 I brought them home and the family and I enjoyed them.
Thanks, Linda! 🙂 My parents moved to San Diego in 1974 and lived there for the rest of their lives, so I was a frequent visitor. It’s a veritable paradise with glorious weather most of the time. 💖 I did visit the zoo early on. It’s huge! Yes, I thought that store in Italy was photo-worthy. My sister-in-law (who lives there) bought a lot of stuff. 🍽️ We took the Greek Islands cruise in 2013. It was 5 days and included Mykonos, Kusadasi (Ephesus), Patmos, Rhodes, Crete and Santorini. Loved it! Sounds like you enjoyed yours as well, especially that night in Mykonos. 😀 Weren’t the figs amazing? The ones you get here don’t really compare.
Debbie, how nice you could visit San Diego so frequently and if I remember correctly San Diego has the most perfect weather of any city in the U.S. year around. I think my 14-day Greek trip (7-day land tour and 7-day cruise) was my favorite vacation ever. Everything was so picturesque and we had perfect weather (September 1981). I wish we had visited Santorini – did you go on a donkey ride? We had one day in Cairo and I had a camel ride. Yes, the figs were plump and tasty!
Yes, they say San Diego has the perfect climate. 🙂 No argument from me, although one year, they had frost three nights in a row when I was there in November! 😲 I had to borrow a couple of sweatshirts from my father., since I’d only packed summer clothes. 😆 Greece is magical, isn’t it? 💖 Our two-week trip also included a land tour, a one day cruise to Hydra, Poros and Aegina, plus extra time in Athens. No donkey rides for me! I got spooked riding a horse as a teenager and said ‘no way’ to that. 😬 Cool that you went to Cairo! That’s one bucketlist item I didn’t get to cross off.
It took me a few years, but I wrote travelogues for each locale:
http://thedogladysden.com/debbies-greek-odyssey/
Debbie, I saved your Greek odyssey post and will look at it separately since you put so much effort into it and I’ll identify with a lot of it.
Two things: I had heard for years about San Diego having perfect weather – boo to the frost in November though. However for “sunniest weather and more sunshiny days per year” I was surprised to learn that was Las Cruces, New Mexico. I had a friend who grew up in Indiana, lived in Michigan most of his life and suffered from SAD. He had his own marketing business, so he worked from home and decided he wanted to retire permanently in a place that had the most sunny days … he researched that and learned it was Las Cruces. So his wife was a few years from retiring and she was the head of PR/marketing at a big hospital – she was not anxious to move at all, liked her job, so suggested he try it out. (Probably hoping he’d change his mind.) So he rented an apartment for the entire Winter. He knew some Spanish from college, but hired a tutor to teach him vocabulary to get by. He loved it. Next Winter, he rented the same place, but went house-hunting while there. He found a home and sent me a photo – he said “now, not only no snow to shovel, but no grass to mow either!” It had small stones, like pea gravel instead of grass and paver bricks for a driveway and patio and cacti. He said he’d use a flame thrower for weeds if there were any. I was envious to be honest – their biggest weather issue was dirt devils. It gets really hot there, but it’s dry heat and he’d boast of sitting out in the sun on a 102F day and not breaking a sweat. His wife flew there to see the house, they moved their furniture, she retired, then Terry had a stroke during the beginning part of the pandemic. He got COVID while rehabbing from the stroke and passed away. I was curious if his widow stayed there, checked the White Pages online recently when I was thinking about Terry and she moved back to Michigan.
As to riding a horse – interesting you wrote that. I have not been horseback riding since I was a teenager. In August 1972, the day Nixon resigned – more on that memory in a minute. My best friend at the time had never been horseback riding. Her older sister and the sister’s friend had taken a vacation day and asked us what we wanted to do. Horseback riding came up and I knew of a place in Amherstburg, Ontario. My parents and I went to Holiday Beach there and my father and I would go to Boots and Saddle to go riding – my mom did not ride. So off we went. They gave her the smallest and gentlest horse, on its first day back from “maternity leave” and the rest of us who had ridden before had taller/bigger horses. Most of the time the nags plodded along until they saw the barn and knew their oats were waiting for them, but this time, my horse was a bit spirited and hers brushed against my horse and it reared up – good thing I was holding onto the pommel as I’d have likely fallen off. One of my horse’s front hooves got my friend Debbie in the calf – she let out a scream. We did not have a guide or anything … we rode back to the ranch, she pulled up her jean leg – bruised badly, no skin broken though, so we went straight to the E.R. in the States. Debbie’s sister said “don’t waste time telling them you’re an alien, Debbie needs medical attention!!” I of course didn’t want to lie, but went along with it. At the E.R. we sat for a long time, into the evening with many TVs on and replaying Nixon’s resignation on all of them. Debbie had no fractures or breaks, just a deep bruise. We all were spooked … I don’t know if the sister and her friend ever rode again, but I never did.
(Sorry for such a long comment, but you remember how we had several things in common, like the Oakville connection – I had to bring this up.)
Thanks for saving my Greek Odyssey page! It’s a glossary of all the travelogues and other related posts I wrote about that trip. Your friend was fortunate to live out his dream in Mexico. How sad that he died prematurely! Yes, “dry” heat certainly makes a difference. We were traipsing around southern Europe in Sept., in 90+ degree weather and were absolutely fine.
The horse incident must have been traumatic for all of you, especially your friend. And the similarities keep mounting! 😀 My story goes like this: When I was in grade 10, a friend convinced a bunch of us to skip school one day and visit her uncle’s ranch to go horseback riding. I’d never been to a farm before, nor seen a horse close up, except at the Royal Winter Fair, so I was keen to go. Well, as if getting on the horse wasn’t scary enough, they gave me one who wasn’t properly trained (plus I wasn’t trained either!). The horse took off in a gallop and I was terrified! 😲 Luckily, I didn’t fall off and eventually got it to stop, but that was the end of my riding adventures.
Your horseback riding event sounds scary and I even belonged to a horseback riding club the last year of high school when we finally had extra-curricular activities again. Thankfully, I was hanging on or I’d have fallen off. I don’t blame you for not getting back on a horse – it shook me up badly as well. I went to the Royal Winter Fair maybe in 1985, the year before my grandmother died and we stopped going to Toronto. I had never been and her neighbor said he’d go with me on the streetcar/bus/subway (don’t remember) so I wouldn’t get lost. I enjoyed it and my favorite part was the Clydesdales pulling the carts with all their harnesses and bells and the jumping events.
I wanted to enjoy the Greek Odyssey post and not feel rushed. I have had a contractor here at the house off and on for five days (more off, a no-show Monday through Wednesday), but said he would be here. So yesterday I finally said “you tore off my gutters Saturday morning and left them and it will rain Friday night, please be here tomorrow – you keep saying you will be here and don’t show up.” When I got back from walking at the Park (six miles … a gorgeous day), he was here, but then left at 1:30 – WTH?! I am going to shut down and have something to eat and go outside … I thought he left for something – lunch, parts and he is still gutting my back garden, which he did Sunday instead of the gutters. He is nice, but …, I am behind with my online social media stuff and yesterday I told him I would be gone most of the day so I could get out of the driveway before he arrived with his truck/trailer. I had two walks and took a lot of photos, then went to a watercolor painting class later. Finally got online, three hours of updates so further behind last night.
Wow – six miles is a lot of walking! I applaud you. My bum right leg would peter out after an hour (old injuries). That said, when we toured Florence in 2018, I logged over 19,000 steps! Threw my hip out, though, and it hurt for 3 months, but Florence! It was worth it. 😀 Sounds like your contractor is a bit flaky, but aren’t they all? Hope he finishes the work to your satisfaction. That Greek Odyssey page will be there as long as my website is, so no rush with that. I will be renewing the hosting contract this month for another three years. Have a good night!
I love wild strawberries. It is a nice selection of photos from around the world.
Thank you, Thomas. 🙂 Wild strawberries make excellent preserves, but this town specialized in strawberry liqueur. Too sweet for my taste, but I enjoyed the colourful display of bottles on the shelves.
Old Town in San Diego is pretty cool.
Yes, I visited Old Town every time I was in San Diego. My parents lived there, so it was like my “second home”. Excellent Margaritas! 🍹
I love going to the Farmers’ Market near us! Thank you for featuring these in your article. They look like wonderful markets!
Glad you enjoyed the tour, Kymber! 🙂 Markets are fascinating.
I love markets Deb and thoroughly enjoyed your market feature. <3
Thanks! 🙂 Foreign markets are especially fascinating.
Very cool pics. Looking at a snippet of your fascinating travel life makes me realize that there’s more than one way to explore the world.
Thanks, G.B. 🙂 I like to capture the unusual, and soak up the atmosphere, wherever I go.