Aug 12, 2009: Farmer's Market

[xoxoxoBruce]

Farmer's markets are wonderful. All those fruits, veggies, and sometimes flowers, honey or dairy, fresh from the farm.

This one is in Thailand, Samut Songkhram province, but can you spot a difference?



Railroad tracks right down the middle make a good defined path for shoppers...
and the eight express trains a day that use these tracks.

Every day in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, a unique market is held whose vendors need feet as quick as their minds. Why? Because much of the market is located directly on a set of operational railway tracks. Eight times daily, a train runs through without care for stopping, sending vendors and visitors to action stations before business as usual resumes.

That must keep everybody on their toes... or lose them.

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