We were up at the crack of dawn to go to the Shongweni farmers market about 30 minutes drive away.
The first thing we notice every time we go there are the dogs...everywhere! Walking, sniffing, begging, yapping, lifting legs, perching on laps.....
..........sitting on tables,
........pulling, nudging, entwining leashes, tripping up their owners..........
......a veritable doggie festival.
Though it sounds like chaos, it isn't. I've only seen one dog bare it's teeth. The others are pretty amiable.
It is quite the event with over 90 stalls selling fresh breads of every discription, dozens of different types of sausages, cheeses, pastas, stone milled flour, smoked duck breasts and trout, biltong, danish pastries and so much food that the the air is filled with the most tantalizing aromas.
There is much to look at, from Nguni skins to sandals made from car tires....
Christmas decorations made from wire and glass beads....
Some of them made on the premises.....
Paintings, ceramics, jewellery and life sized giraffes made from tin.
At the end of all the meandering, tasting and shopping we sat on hay bales to sip coffee and watch life stroll by.
