Ubud Market, Bali

In Ubud, we visited the market and as you can see from the photos there was many different things to buy. Here you can bargain with the sellers which is not my strong point, the stuff is already dead cheap and you get little more of the price. I did not buy anything for me but for a friend, which I still have to give to her. It was a busy place and full of mostly tourists and were many. many stalls to look at and in the end it was more or less the same stuff being sold.

This weekend has passed again quickly, I had a very quick trip to Konstanz with a friend and bought some things. Alessio was playing in two indoor football tournaments, so that kept him busy.

Wishing you all a good week ahead

Bern Onion Market

On Monday 23rd November I went to Berne with my lovely friend Elisa Bieg, the reason for this was to visit the onion market, in Swiss German it is called Zibelemärit. Once a year on the 4th Monday in November this traditional folk market takes place, it starts at 5am.

Everything is made out of onion and garlic, they are woven into looking braids, wreaths and some are also made into strange onion people . The kids walk around throwing confetti and bashing people on the head with plastic hammers.

To eat there are savoury cheese and onion tarts which were very nice and onion soup too. Of course there is mulled wine along with other types of drinks too. There are also other stalls with non-onions things too, such as one with Turron. There were also lots of stalls selling colourful necklaces of sweets. Each colour was a different taste, I bought three different ones. Lots of people walked around wearing at least a few of these necklaces.

I have wanted to visit this market for ages and am glad to have seen it, but I would not go again, once is enough.

Mercado San Miguel

During our trip to Madrid, my sister and I visited the Mercado San Miguel which is located quite near the Plaza Major. It is nice building and inside are many different stalls where you can eat and drink. A small area to sit down and eat but mainly you stand to eat or drink. We decided to have a drink (surprise surprise I hear you say), as it was around 5pm it was not so busy. We stopped at one of the many bars and decided to have sangria with prosecco!

It was really delicious, so we had another! I can recommend that combination which we hope to have again when we are both in Portugal next week!

It really is worth a visit and I am sure you will be tempted to have some refreshments!

Hong Kong Life Part 1

next to a shopping mall

on the peak

Bank of China Tower on the right

The Peninsula Hotel

Queen Victoria Statue

In Lan Kwai Fong area

I decided to do a mix of photos of our trip to Hong Kong, starting from our first evening, which was in Causeway Bay, it is mainly a shopping area. It was always busy and seeing lots and lots of people still at 11pm was something we did not get used too. Also there are SO many shopping malls everywhere in Hong Kong, I did not want to do any shopping but towards the end of the trip I felt like I should be buying lots of things.

There are many interesting buildings to look at from the financial area like the Bank of China tower, to apartments buildings (photo 3), hotels to temples, I found them all interesting to see.

One of the highlights was visiting the all the different kinds of markets, Temple Night Market starts around 6pm, ladies markets is during the day. Then there was the jade market, goldfish market, bird market and flower market they are all in Kowloon.

Lan Kwai Fong is where you can have a wild night out lots of bars, restaurant and clubs. We stopped by the Hard Rock Cafe for some food and heard a live band too. Another evening we came here for a some drinks and saw Captain America hanging out.