Not really a flea market day.

And what is the date kids? 

I would just like to first point out that I didn’t title this one,  “May the fourth be with you”.   

Mind you,  I was certainly tempted,  and of course,  I still managed to get it in here somehow. 

*ahem*

 

And I’m not really a flea market person.  Let me see,  how much did I spend at the flea market this morning?   Well,  just exactly the same amount that I’ve spent at that flea market for the last three years.  Nothing.  Nada.  Zilch.   I spent a whopping €,79 at the bakery.  And that was only because that’s where I normally go,  and it’s on the same street as the flea market. 

The thing is,  I see all the stuff that I’ve either purged over the years and sold in garage sales or taken to the “Reuse Centre”  OR,  I’m reminded of some of the other stuff that needs to go.   I already have enough LPs,  cassettes and VHS tapes that I’m not completely sure what to do with. 

*It can be an emotional time.* *sniff*  

Meh,  not really.

Ya,  a bit damp.  

By the way,  our “Sahara heat wave”?  

A memory.

The vendors were coping.  At least it wasn’t rainy AND windy.  That can truly suck.  When your little tarp that you’re using to protect all those highly prised Indonesian “works of art”  that you had shipped over in a huge container that your now charging 1000% for, gets blown into the street?  That can be a crying shame.   Not that I’d be offering any opinions or anything, but some of it looked all too familiar.

I did happen to recognise some Ironware,  and only put on my glasses to look and see if in fact I knew what I was looking at.  The vendor had that look on his face like he had found a mark,  but I was only testing my memory.  Sorry dude!  ‘Cause I really need that one solitary piece of Ironware that I’ve been missing all these  years. 

Just a slight eye roll there.  Pay no mind.

 

The only good part, for me at least was, that since it was kinda crappy weather,  it wasn’t as mobbed as these things tend to be.  I was OK with that.   Plus,  I didn’t quite realise how far I had wandered,  and then it occurred me that I had made it all the way to a particular hardware/metal supply place on Burggaße.    Oh goodie!  I finally get to check it out.

 

Oh,  and this is kind of neat,  I found a short video in English that gives a little overview.   Hope you can play it.

 

When I played this in the browser it did go on to the next video,  so just be warned.  That’s annoying I find.

If you can’t play the video,  suffice to say this place is like one of the old time hardware stores with gobs of bins full of every type of nut,  bolt,  screw or what have you,  only with the addition of all different types of metal, but without the squeaky floors. 

Two different employees asked if they could help me.  How refreshing!  Sucks that I didn’t need anything,  dammit.   Would have been much happier to have found this place back in say, 2009?  Oh well.

 

That was the big adventure for this morning.  Wasn’t that just swell? 

Of course,  we’d be missing something if there wasn’t at least one mention of someone putting up a scaffold somewhere. 

This was on Andreasgaße.

 

Crazy bugger.  I’d be hangin’ on for dear life.

Good on ya there buddy.

 

Thanks for stopping by,  and yes…

May fourth be with you.

 

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