Visiting Russell Market

The journey to Russell market - a medium sized market in Downtown Bangalore - was initiated by the hunt for Lime fruits. But since we were taking the time to drive there, we obviously decided to get a bit more flavour on the local market atmosphere. There was a larger number of flower stalls, all fabricating flower chains to make the daily life more colorful for the Indians - and us;-) Naja and Laura were very popular with the crowd...as can be seen, they were immediately offered flowers
There was even time to make a small chain they could wear, as Laura is proudly showing

The market contained a variety of flowers, fruits, spices, vegetables and meat. But as we were there during Easter, many of the stalls were closed.

One of the things that become evident in the market is that time is not of major importance to the Indians. See this Tomato stall...It must have taking the owner a loooong time to orderly place all these nicely ripped tomatoes.

Outside we were having the classic discussion about Lemons and Limes. Please refer to a different post on that topic.

After having spent some time shopping fruits, we went on to get some dried coriander seeds. Normally in Denmark you get these in bags of say 20 grams. Prices are a bit different in India. We ended up buy ½ a Kg (that is 500 grams!!) for the incredible amount of 40 Rupees, equally to that of a little more than 4 DKK.

On the way we met one of the many classic cows, and of course had to take a photo

India, and market areas in particular are not among the cleanest places on Earth. If you are lucky, some guy will pile all the crap up outside, and then someone will set it on fire...That is if a cat, dog or cow haven't been eating all of it before that.

Forget to mention the goats...there is of course also goats in the streets. By the way notice I also got a flower chain around my wrist...more on that topic later.

Last place we went to was a combined butchers and groceries street. We were looking for sunflower seeds, but didn't succeed. The scary thing about this butchers street was coming from above. If you take a close look up in the air on the photo, you will notice a bunch of large birds...They were eagles and very interested in "attacking" the meat stall at street level hence we had Laura and Naja running screaming around. Must admit it was indeed a bit scary...especially for us who remember Hitchcocks "Birds"

Back to my flower wrist chain...We talked to some Muslims on the way back and they kept laughing about me wearing this. After a bit of the usual not wanting to say things straight, they told me that if a guy is wearing a flower chain like that it means he is interested in finding a stripper;-)!! Valuable information.