Neighbourgoods Market.

Saturday morning in Joburg means the Neighbourgoods Market!  It’s in a cool neighbourhood and offers good food, good clothes/jewellery and good beats.  We all loved what the live DJ was playing!  The crowd was very mixed and super friendly.  We indulged in craft brew, nice wines and innovative foods.  It was a superb local experience.  The girls were also entertained by making flower crowns and telling our story to all who asked.  The non-South African accent gave us all away and many people were interested in out story.  It took up 2 levels of a parking garage right in the middle of town, a stones throw from the more dangerous parts of Joburg.  Amazing market with such a funky, cool vibe – we pretty much stayed until closing time!

The upstairs area with the DJ under the umbrellas – needed as it hailed for a bit later on!

 

Lining up to get their flower crown materials

 

Now to build the crowns…with a little help from maman.

 

Tables full of lovely flowers set for crowns

 

Pretty pleased with how it is going

 

Cool solo effort

 

Maman hard at work with Skye

 

Finished product and craft beer

 

Very pleased

 

A little help for Willow too

 

Finishing touches

 

Happy with their efforts

 

Princess Willow

 

Some cool crafts for sale

 

Getting some amazing food

 

So many food options and so many friendly people. I suspect we were the only tourists

 

We befriended the gang making ‘SWIRL” – a flavoured ice cream style treat..so good!

 

Skye went behind the counter to check out the SWIRL process

 

Our little helper Skye ready to make some SWIRL

 

The Neighbourgoods neighbourhood

The area around the non-descript parking garage that housed the market had cool pubs and galleries and some awesome graffiti.  However it wasn’t too much walking before we realised we were not in a the best place for a tourist family….a quick turn around and call to Uber….

Mandela and/or his name is everywhere. Kind of funny to remember the USA kept him on their terror list until the mid 2000s. It had been 17 years since i was in SOuth Africa – some parts were much better but in some areas much worse….

 

Though Joburg is known as a dangerous city all my experiences have been good- love this place!

 

Little turtles built into the sidewalks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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