Munich has an open air food market in the middle of town which is well known, the
Originally, an early farmers’ market it developed into a meeting point for housewives, chefs, gourmets and tourists. Among the more unusual finds are statues of beloved Munich actors from times gone by.
Some of the stalls feature their own sculptures.
And if one is lucky, one might even find what one came for in the first place:
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Market Finds
There was this pond covered with water lilies, one about to be born like Venus of the watery foam, a nascent life form. Nearby lilac flowers looked like an abundance of writhing snakes pullulating in the bushes. This made me hungry so I went to the famous Viktualienmarkt in Munich with its hundreds of stalls selling victuals of every kind. A car passed by – and I wondered if a nut feels maternal towards bolts, after all in German they are called “Mutter” which means “mother”. And I was back at the pond where a frog pondered reflectively about his eye glancing up at him from the water and he completed the circle quoting “Consider the lilies!” from The Life of Brian.
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