Big Town Market

A wonderful sculpture in the main square of Argos, one of our closest big towns

Two girls, bare foot, sitting on a bench looking at a book.

And now

Photos of fish and vegetables. 

These fish are called, in greek, tsipoura.  Google translates them as sea bream.  Elsewhere they are around 10 euros a kilo and are often frozen.  This big city market has a wonderful selection of fresh fish and they are all so much cheaper than Poros or a supermarket

The fish sellers are right up to the new demands of fish buyers and every stall has a portable bench and a fish scaler and gutter on hand

Although strawberries aren't usually on sale until around April we found them on a few stalls at a very reasonable price

Shrimp at a very good price. 5 euros a kilo.

K scooped up all of these

Local wine in one and a half  and 5 litre plastic containers

I don't remember the price but its probably selling for around 2 euros a litre here. We didn't buy any.  We still have family wine.  But K prefers Poros wine which he can sample before buying.  A few litres at night and no headache in the morning means it's good, as long as it doesn't taste like vinegar

Honey straight from the beekeeper

We buy from our own small weekly market, from our local apiculturist/apiarist.  She's a client of my daughters and very friendly.  She sells honey with the aroma of thyme, pine, orange blossom or what K prefers, the taste of local flowers

Garlic from northern Greece, Thrace

A bundle of 3 for 1.50 euro

Good strong garlic

The potatoes are from just up the coast in the province of Achaia

And after all that bargaining we found our favourite souvlaki shop with souvlaki made with meat from the butcher's shop next door

 

5 souvlaki (pork on a skewer) and one kebab (spicy meatball on a skewer), tzatziki, a few fries, pita bread and wine only 19 euros for the two of us.  It was a lot.  We took a wee container home with the leftovers.

And then the highlight of the day (for me, definitely not for K)

Some shopping at the cheap German supermarket.