From Genoa with... Wednesday Mar 8 10:02:58 - Tuesday Mar 9 21:53 2023 An antiques market. Books wrapped in cellophane from various publishers with nondescrip covers. Ten copies of "AIRCRAFT" in English. Furniture. Teak or oak dining room tables for ten with extra leaves that allow it to seat fourteen, bent metal-tubing chairs from Alessi, side tables, and mid-century coffee tables. Knick-knacks from "'800 e '900": costume jewelry, rings with enormous fake sapphires, chunky necklaces, came nondescript silhouettes beside porcelain putti. Posters. Movie post show posters from the '20s and '30s, art prints from the local boy wonders, reproductions, originals, and the engravings you find in t tourist shops. Tin helmets, machine guns, and inert grenades; plast tanks, toy soldiers, Micro-Machines, and Hot Wheels (for the collectors). Buddha heads in wood and Tibetan Prayer flags, vases a mugs and old road maps sorted by region and city. One does the cros through her half-reading glasses; another reads the newspaper, and another disputes prices with a customer. A student watches a lectur his computer at the bistro while eating a heaping plate of pasta. "Impor -export". Fatigues and used clothing. Mostly jackets packed tightly together. Camouflage broadcasts and advertises in a mass of patterns. Leather jackets with lamb skin collars in the window. The patches preserved sheepskin-lined denim coats, corduroy shirts and blue jeans. Canvas leather all packed together. Then the importers. Sneakers, knock-of Adidas, chunky soles and thin soles, knock-off Keds. Blank T-shirts spectrum of colours all lined up by colour and size. Pants, get you pants! The proprietor stands in the doorway. Bags. Square luggage w two or four wheels. Large rectangular bags. All in a variety of col "Louise Votten" and "Long Champs" straight in from the docks. Backp duffle bags packed tightly in cellophane, raincoats, and umbrellas. Passport sleeves and ticket holders. Souvenirs arrayed on the wall, these stores are closed. Magnets: flat magnets with printed images, plaster moulded magnets, commemorative cups and shot glasses. Postc on a rotating stand, keychains. The traffic is bumper to bumper. Trucks with full-size and half-size containers, cars, motorcycles, taxis, busses on the way to the train station. Ferries. Ferries to Sardinia. Ferries to Corsica. Then it opens up. ___________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/3.1.1 on Debian/8.11 x86_64