Salamanca Market

One of our favorite things about living where we do is the Salamanca Market which opens up every Saturday at 8:30 and runs until about 3:00 that afternoon. The market extends for four city blocks and contains hundreds of stalls, most of them permanent. There are craft stalls and food stalls, stalls for antiques, political parties, fruits, vegetables, clothing, weaving, knitting, toys and serious art. Local musicians, some of them very well accomplished, send their sounds out into the marketplace and across the harbour. We've gotten to know many of the stall owners and making the rounds to chat with everyone takes quite a while now. Setup beings in the wee hours, sometimes as early as 4:00 AM and almost everyone is gone by that time in the afternoon. In between, it's a feast for the eyes, ears, nose and soul!


The market begins at the Silos at the east end. This was taken out of our back window.	At the west end, the market stops at Davey Street at the top end of St. David's Park where a pair of lions clad in wisteria guard the entrance.

Cary Lewincamp entertains us all from the youngest to the oldest with his silky sweet music on his seven string guitar!	We love to hear these guys play their Peruvian and South American songs. The music echoes all the way across the harbour and just makes us feel good.

Some of the younger musicians in the marketplace....	We do most of our vegetable shopping at the Hmong stalls.

Lots of Scottish influence in the area. This young fellow did a pretty good sword dance!	The group, Spiral Trance has been at the market this winter. A second harp joined them one Saturday recently!

This is the Highland Piping Band, one of three bagpipe bands we see at the market and around Salamanca and Battery Point. This young lady in the center danced for the pipers.