Sunday, October 08, 2006
Veggies to Cola
This is small vegetable market in the middle of Community 1 here in Tema. It is nothing short of hectic and almost terrifying to get down to it, so we don't visit too often. The traffic is so thick and "fender to fender" - I was going to say "bumper to bumper" but that is not really as big a challenge as cars moving into you from the sides quietly squeezing into the lanes (bad word as there aren't really any marked - but generally speaking they are quite polite and courteous and willing to give as well as receive. The vegetables you see are carrots (really not too edible), peppers, cucumbers, onions, yams, etc. Middle of fruit season there are a lot of watermelons, and all year round there are pineapples - but they are sold at a fruit stand and not a vegetable stand.
This is probably the staff of life - COCA COLA delivery truck. They only have about four flavors of pop here - coke, sprite, fanta, and pineapple. This truck was blocking a main highway going up to the dam backing to unload a semi full of pop at a small pop stand at the edge of the road - the red you see on the truck and on the top of the stand are cases of pop - primarily coke. Traffic was quite content to wait for the truck to back in and unload its prize treasure.# posted by Ghana Gazette @ 9:53 AM 
