A new country- Mozambique- and no excursion today. Jennifer and I took the ship-provided shuttle bus to the local market and spent a nice morning there admiring the fabric and batik artwork.
Everyone wanted to sell us something but graciously took ‘no, thank you’ as a response. Well almost everyone, the self-named Mr. Discount was harder to get past.
I’m not such a good bargainer. Jennifer got the special ‘first customer’ price while I got the tourist price. Mainly because they could tell when I liked something because I’d say to Jennifer “This is perfect, I love it!”. And once I found a piece of fabric that I liked and wondered if they had a larger piece. Someone went all over the market looking for a larger piece so it was pretty hard to bargain when they found it and brought it to me.
After spending a few hours at the market we went home with our treasures and pampered ourselves with wine and a face mask.
