Did you ever sell on a flea market?

[lizbud]

I Lived in Europe for several years and the highlight of a weekend would be running up on one of their markets in a village. We often drove several hundred miles a weekend in The Netherlands , Belgium, or Germany. We were always thrilled to pull into a villiage or town to find it was their "market" day. I loved these because there were always
unique finds that you could never find in US. Our biggest such market was in Antwerp Belgium. Antwerp is a good sized city and the entire town was one HUGE flea market. Like there were several city blocks just for the sale of pets. Amazing. I much prefer the concept of market day like you see it there. It was like a rotating calender and there was a market in a different Village every week. The village i lived in Castricum NL had one every 6 months but so did the Village 30 miles down the road. I have a antique Bellows hanging on my fireplace that I picked up at a market in Hoorne NL. My house is full of memories we found this way.

That sounds like fun. I really am not a "shopper" at heart, but finding
unusal items from around the world would be neat.

[kokopup]

That sounds like fun. I really am not a "shopper" at heart, but finding
unusal items from around the world would be neat.

i am not a shopper either , however, i really enjoyed these markets because it was like crossing the fair with a flea market. The big difference for me being you ran into stuff you would never see in a flea market. You could also find any type of food vendor you can imagine. When walking around you were emerse in all these great smells. My favorite snack was french fries with satee' sauce. The satee' was a peanut butter concoction. Can you spell calories

One unique market that was popular in the Netherlands was the "swartz market" which mean black market. The local joke was that if it was stolen from you in Amsterdam this morning you can buy it back this afternoon at the Swartz market. This is not to say that it was a
market for stolen goods, although there were some. It was also a very
big mid-east market with many foods and durable goods from the mid east. It was almost like walking through a market in Beruit.