To Four Markets We Go

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>> "My mind's telling me no, but my body's telling me yes!" So says, the Casson Londont-shirt I'm wearing today, echoing the wise words of R Kelly.  Except it's my body that's telling me no as I'm currently battling a chronic case of IBS, something nobody really wants to talk about, but a lot of people have.  Clutching one's stomach in pain is not conducive to blogging so today I'm doing a quick and easy upload of photos from the Tokyo/Bangkok/Shanghai/Mexico City trips I took last year.  In particular, I tried to mine some markets in every city, which tend to always be the source of some strange and wonderful sights, with their own quirks that are unique to those cities.  In Tokyo's Meiji Park flea market, Sanrio, off-cut of kimono fabrics and vintage Hawaiian shirts were the dominant themes.  At Bangkok's Train Night Market, a slightly cooler respite from the cray-cray JJ weekend market, I loved the creepy night-lit toys, retro drinks signs and mahussive pieces of furniture that did make think about trying to sort out freight shipping when I was there.  There were never going to be any real bargains at the tourist-y Dongtai Road antiques market in Shanghai but I did love touching up the abundance of Miao tribe skirts and Qing dynasty robes.  And finally at La Ciudadela in Mexico City, which is admittedly a market full of souvenir fodder for tourists, I unabashedly indulged in all that riotous colour, which Mexico does so well.  Now I'm willing my body to co-operate so that I can function properly for upcoming trips to Seoul, Tokyo and of course the usual slew of travel for fashion weeks.  Hopefully R Kelly won't mind too much if I temporarily switch the Yes and No in his lyrics.  

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Meiji Park Flea Market, Tokyo

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Talad Rot Fai/The Train Market, Bangkok

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Dongtai Road Antiques Market/Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market, Shanghai

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La Ciudadela, Mexico City

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27 comments

  4. Ahhh how did I miss this market in Bangkok? Instead I ended up buying a variety of ‘branded’ goods at MBK (one of which may have broken already), as a result of wandering around aimlessly getting lost. Will definitely bookmark these for any future visits.

  19. Sorry to hear you have IBS. I’ve had it for most my life and something thats helped me is the low FODMAP diet.
    You can get an app from the people who are doing the research, which helps you work out what to eat https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/monash-university-low-fodmap/id586149216?mt=8
    This book is good too http://www.amazon.co.uk/IBS-Free-Second-Change-Elimination-ebook/dp/B007R7SPYM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376564157&sr=1-1 and the woman who wrote it has a blog where she posts updates to the book http://www.ibsfree.net/
    Also this blog is good for updates and recipes http://blog.katescarlata.com/
    Hope you get better soon.

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