{"id":240,"date":"2010-03-30T20:45:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/?p=240"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:50:28","slug":"weekly-market-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Weekly market trip."},"content":{"rendered":"

Each Saturday we go to the market. I keep all our small change in a market purse and we buy lots of fresh produce for just a few kina ( a kina is around 40cents AUD). Pineapple, bananas, kau kau (like a sweet potato), tomatoes, mango and whatever else that we like and is available – you never know what you might find! We definitely don’t buy tobacco nor buai (betel nut) and it’s accompanying bag of lime – but we do enjoy lots of other local fare!<\/p>\n

The markets are on a dirt patch with some make-shift shade and lots of umbrellas. The ground is washed away in places and you have to watch your step – but they are colourful with lots of character.<\/p>\n

The women bring their produce from the village (usually in the back of a truck) each morning and sit all day to earn just a few kina – every day except Sunday.<\/p>\n

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There are always plenty of peanuts<\/p>\n

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The tobacco is neatly displayed (and lighters too!)<\/p>\n

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The bilums are colourful – I have a few- but I don’t carry mine around my forehead!
\n Note baby sleeping in the black laplap tied to the pole!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes there is even a bit of jewellery available.<\/p>\n

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These baskets are specific to the local Tolai people and are commonly seen being carried by men (often with their food inside!)<\/p>\n

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It is always fun at the market – and I enjoy this weekly visit!<\/p>\n

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Our market experience is about to change as this week a new purpose built market site will open – across the road from the current markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each Saturday we go to the market. I keep all our small change in a market purse and we buy lots of fresh produce for just a few kina ( a kina is around 40cents AUD). Pineapple, bananas, kau kau (like a sweet potato), tomatoes, mango and whatever else that we like and is available […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}