Dali morning market

Woohoo! Both Saskia and I slept for 8 hours last night. We think it’s because we had 2 drinks and no food!

The hotel sent us to the top floor where “Western” breakfast was served. We had oats and hot milk, then a cold fried egg with tomato which had a kind of sweet mayonnaise on it. We declined the cold chips and spaghetti bolognese.

At 9 we met the guide who took us to the morning market. It was raining but the sun burst out occasionally. It was so busy it was hard to see stuff. Between the stalls electric scooters were wending their way between the throng of shoppers. Fresh fish of all sorts from tiny minnow-sized ones, eels and huge scaley ones were in bowls of aerated water. Meat, mainly pork, was sold as well as slabs of blood, offal, even dried beef intestines. It wasn’t smelly which was a relief. The vegetable section was so interesting, especially the varieties of mushrooms. It was all a bit too hectic, trying to avoid the scooters, holes in the road and not get in the way of people trying to do their shopping.

We bought a specially of the area, which was very flat fanned-out cheese on a stick, covered in some kind of sweet stickiness then cooked over a hot plate. It was tasty but quite tough and chewy.

We have the afternoon to walk around again in the town. We’d hoped to get a bus to a cable car which goes up a mountain where there are walks, but it is off-season and anyway, too cloudy and wet to get a view down to the lake.

i liked the way the light fell on this trader’s face.