Spent a good part of the day walking to and from the Central Markets (twice), which it turns out are about 20 mins walk from Rue 278. This is the big yellow art deco domed building featured previously.
Procurements included some more pants for work, some Chinese and Khmer-style shirts for work, belts, ties, pair of sandals (Teva-style ones, which are hard to get and overpriced in Oz), a full-sized USB keyboard because programming on the laptop one is killing me, and a bigger backpack to carry it all. Also obtained a custom-made sign for my house back in Oz – see photo. If anyone else wants one, let me know – was US$10.
Final purchase was some big coloured stones that they dig out of the ground here, and cut like diamonds but much bigger. The diameter of these ones was ~10cm, but they come up to about 20cm. IT was also properly sunny for the first time today – up until now it has been cloudy most of the day. Result = sunburnt Lukas.
Coloured stones
Bikkies!
Also, some pics from along the way – a cyclo (another form of public transport) and pedestrian crossing traffic lights (follow at your peril – they are ignored by all) – the top one is a countdown until it changes colours – as the green counts down, the animated moonwalking man goes faster and faster. Finally, two shots from an aquarium shop – fish in a jar (the top of the jar seems smaller than the fish), and lots of little neon fish in plastic tubs.
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They have similar traffic lights in Spain, with a 30 second countdown timer when the light goes green! Only in the last five second the animated walking stick figure breaks out into a run to underscore the urgency of the situation.
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