El Cisne Market

The Sunday market called El Cisne is something of an experience. For those who love antiques there is the original antique shop, but extending much further are rows of market stalls selling everything from native indian dreamcatchers, and incense to second hand clothes, dishes of paella, complete with chunks of bread and slices of lemon.The paella is cooked in the flat pans and rotated as one becomes empty another is covered and waiting to be used , the only market equivalent is pie and peas.- Not the same somehow.Ann and Mike had wandered round the stalls while I was at church, and were ready to sit down and enjoy the music when I arrived.I had been meaning to capture the atmosphere of the market , so left Ann foot tapping to John the Fiddler Behind the air of enjoyment , it is clear that the recession is biting, and that many Brits and Germans are selling up and returning to their country. The visitors are not buying, and the second hand stalls are the most popular.There is a joking camaraderie among the stallholders, who come to El Cisne on Saturday or Sunday, and then travel along the coast to other more mundane markets. We usually meet up with friends – Ray who has a DVD, video stall, and Irene , just back from England agreed to show Ann her apartment in Albir tomorrow, before she left for home.