THE MARKET ON A BUSY SUNDAY MORNING

THE MARKET ON A BUSY SUNDAY MORNING


If driving along an empty road on an ordinary Sunday morning, you storm into a gridlock of people and cars disorderly parked all around while hearing thousands of incoherent cries, you then realize you have entered the zone of the busy Athens Agora; one of the oldest and most widespread methods of selling and buying goods.
Instants later you hardly keep in mind that you are in Athens as you notice faces from all around the world prepared to persuade you that what they put before you is the greatest you can get. You forget you are in Athens for such marketplaces are greatly uniform throughout the whole world and have remained similar throughout the centuries. Unquestionably, the setting varies from place to place and the products do tend to modernize on a frequent basis.
If one has patience, anything can be found: old watches and binoculars indisputably from the Soviet Union in addition to the finest Chinese silk and super hi-fi stereos and nu...