Market day September 27

Fuengirola market day was one of those fun yet stressful ways to spend the morning.

The market is a combination swapmeet and fresh market. We choose to visit the swapmeet first to avoid carrying around the fruit and veggies that we knew we would aquire.Tom found a new wallet and I bought a couple "just for fun" bracelets and a surprise for Chloe (think Flamenco dancer).

We headed over to the fresh section and the stressful fun began. We love exploring and shopping
local markets, hence the fun. However,there is always the language barrier, different currency, and
"foreign" weights and measures (that metric system never did catch on did it?). As if that's not enough,
there is the elusive "is it OK to touch the fruit". I learn something new each time I visit a market though. Today I learned to ask for a "media kilo" to get a half kilo which is closer to a US pound, and a more manageable amount of most items.I found that I could ask for a certain number of something and that is usually aceptable also. We came away with tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, lemons, 3 extremely sugar sweet mangoes from Malaga, and something new to us called Melocoton (mellow co tone). They are about the size of a medium apple, yellow like a lemon, fuzzy like a peach and sort of taste like a tart nectarine. Yummy :)