These are the fresh vegetable markets in a very nice suburb just north of us. I haven't ventured into these yet as I am buying my vegetables from a little supermarket. One day I will venture into them. I think I will ask my driver to walk with Daisy and i jsut to be on the safer side. I didn't see many white women with babies in the area. The photo is a little blurred as it is taken from the car as we were speeding past. Daisy has her car seat we we feel much better with her travelling in it than on our laps. It is a little upright and if she is very tired then sheis back on my lap and has a sleep. Most of the time she is happy to sit up and point things out to me. There are some interesting vegetables that I have no idea what to do with them so we are mainly sticking to sweet potatoes, ordinary potatoes, tomatos, zucchini (courgettes) cauliflower and spinach. The fruit looks lovely and has the most amazing colours. There are little carts of pomergranites, mangoes and stinky fruit everywhere on the side of the road and in little side streets. I haven't bought anything of these either yet. Our cleaning lady was veyr generous and bought some sweet potatoes from her garden for Daisy. We buy most of our herbs fresh like curry leaves, coriander, mint. A bunch costs 2 rupees. There are 87 rupees to the pound and 34 to the Australian dollar. A bunch of spinach is about 8 rupees. A bag of dal is 46 rupees and rice is about 30. A bag of flour is 28 rupees. A jar of English jam is 280 rupees and a can of baked beans, heinz of course, is 300 rupees. A copy of the Sunday Times from England is 680 rupees. We are still reliant on imported food but we are gradually eating more spinach and dal and curries so hopefully our cost of living will be quite managable. We did eat out at a chinese resturant today and it cost 900 rupees as we had quite the meal. Daisy loved her steamed vegetable dumpings!
These are the fresh vegetable markets in a very nice suburb just north of us. I haven't ventured into these yet as I am buying my vegetables from a little supermarket. One day I will venture into them. I think I will ask my driver to walk with Daisy and i jsut to be on the safer side. I didn't see many white women with babies in the area. The photo is a little blurred as it is taken from the car as we were speeding past. Daisy has her car seat we we feel much better with her travelling in it than on our laps. It is a little upright and if she is very tired then sheis back on my lap and has a sleep. Most of the time she is happy to sit up and point things out to me. There are some interesting vegetables that I have no idea what to do with them so we are mainly sticking to sweet potatoes, ordinary potatoes, tomatos, zucchini (courgettes) cauliflower and spinach. The fruit looks lovely and has the most amazing colours. There are little carts of pomergranites, mangoes and stinky fruit everywhere on the side of the road and in little side streets. I haven't bought anything of these either yet. Our cleaning lady was veyr generous and bought some sweet potatoes from her garden for Daisy. We buy most of our herbs fresh like curry leaves, coriander, mint. A bunch costs 2 rupees. There are 87 rupees to the pound and 34 to the Australian dollar. A bunch of spinach is about 8 rupees. A bag of dal is 46 rupees and rice is about 30. A bag of flour is 28 rupees. A jar of English jam is 280 rupees and a can of baked beans, heinz of course, is 300 rupees. A copy of the Sunday Times from England is 680 rupees. We are still reliant on imported food but we are gradually eating more spinach and dal and curries so hopefully our cost of living will be quite managable. We did eat out at a chinese resturant today and it cost 900 rupees as we had quite the meal. Daisy loved her steamed vegetable dumpings! 
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