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Cheese Market
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It's my second visit to Netherlands (but first trip with all family). I like this beautiful country...
Please have a look my other Netherlands shots here and here
On Thursday mornings cheese farmers from all over the district used to come to Gouda in their cheese brakes. In the nearby Tiendeweg the horses were unharnessed, after which the brake was pushed by hand to the Markt, where the farmer was assigned a place by the market superintendent and bargaining could take off. When a cheese trader approached a brake, the farmer removed his tarpaulin and started bargaining. After the lot was sold the brake left for the Kaaswaag for the cheese to be weighed. The trader paid the farmer according to the weighing slip he received. Most of the time payment was made in the beerhouse at the end of the market day.
The traditional Gouda cheese market is still held on Thursday mornings (starting mid-June and lasting until early September). Still we find farmers and traders doing what they have done for ages: haggling, bargaining. Lots that have been sold still go by cheese brake to the Waag to be weighed. Supplying and carrying-off, bargaining and weighing, all these still are as spectacular as they used to be and can be observed at a very close distance. This also goes for the typical Dutch cheese boys and cheese girls, the latter regularly offering bits of Gouda cheese to visitors.
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(3144) - [2006-08-15 4:23]
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perfect mood, great sepia work!
wonderful!
tfs
Excellent Alex! Well presented in the sepia format, full of interest. A lovely mix of tourists and Dutch in their national costumes. Very good notes also and TFS,
David
Many thanks for your comment on
King's Bridge
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- thor68
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if it weren´t for the modern tourists, one could think this
was taken at the beginning of the 20th century...
excellent idea and transfer into the warm sepia tones,
giving this special "old" mood.
good job & best wishes, thor.
