Whilst I was ambling around the Queen Victoria night and day markets in Melbourne, it got me thinking about other markets I'd been to. Great successes and abject failures.
Some New Zealand markets consist of only half a dozen stalls selling limp fruit and $2 shop products. Other markets, like the Martinborough February and March country fairs, have hundreds of stalls selling everything short of escorts and elephants. When I'm driving around the North Island on a Saturday or Sunday, I often chance across small markets.
The town of Taupo is beside Lake Taupo in the middle of the North Island and has quite a vibrant Saturday market; knick-knacks, vegetables and fruit, hot food, cup cakes (yum), soaps, garden stuff, and, you know, the usual sort of market sales. They've added a trash 'n' treasure area, which is sort of a car boot fair. And every year, on one Saturday per month except winter, there is an artists market on a lawn between the lake and the town's main restaurant area.
Here's a pic of the sit-down area at Taupo market. They obviously have a stylist.
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