Sydney Markets for Food, Fashion & Shopping
I love markets because they make an ordinary weekend feel a little like being on holiday: you never quite know whether you'll come home with a vintage find, a bag of produce or a new favourite snack. Around Sydney I've followed that feeling from early fish auctions and growers' stalls to buzzing night markets and Korean food halls, always hungry for the delicious thing I didn't know I was looking for.
"Do you have gumboots?" Tess asks me. "Ummm I answer well as a matter of fact I do" I answer her not mentioning that they're pink and white polka dotted gumboots that I bought from the children's section as I thought that the adult colours were just a bit drab. I was going to get a peek into a genuine wholesale Fish Auction and aside from gumboots, I'd need sleep as they start at 5am. Summoning a taxi wasn't easy, it was dark outside and tried to flag down three but they never even saw me. I was half asleep so I patted myself. Was I a ghost? I finally hailed a taxi and I get to the fish markets and ring George Costi of Claudio's Seafood to let him know I am there. He comes out rather perky for a man who started work at 5am and he hands me a fluorescent jacket. They'll go wonderfully with my gumboots I think.
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