Oh, but Rachel, Rachel, the fish markets are the best ever! And the boats will be coming in with their catches any minute now! The fish, Rachel, think of the glorious fish!
"That would be terribly cruel of us, wouldn't it? Keeping them on tenterhooks," he says as they head down the streets towards the more crowded marketplaces.
The house-lined streets open at every intersection into wide open squares or plazas, with recently reconstructed statues or fountains at their centers. People bustle too and fro, chatting with one another, haggling over prices at stalls of fresh fruit and vegetables. Children of various ages weave their games through the crowd, chasing one another, laughing. Everywhere there is thick, vibrant Life, in the smells of cooking food, in the colors of a passing woman's swirling skirt, in the laugh of an old man smoking a pipe, telling stories with his friends.
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Date: 2007-01-02 11:31 pm (UTC)From:"That would be terribly cruel of us, wouldn't it? Keeping them on tenterhooks," he says as they head down the streets towards the more crowded marketplaces.
The house-lined streets open at every intersection into wide open squares or plazas, with recently reconstructed statues or fountains at their centers. People bustle too and fro, chatting with one another, haggling over prices at stalls of fresh fruit and vegetables. Children of various ages weave their games through the crowd, chasing one another, laughing. Everywhere there is thick, vibrant Life, in the smells of cooking food, in the colors of a passing woman's swirling skirt, in the laugh of an old man smoking a pipe, telling stories with his friends.