Castries Market,St. Lucia

What an adventure to visit the busy local market in Castries. It is a six day a week operation, with Sunday's set aside for church services. Everyone seems to have their own spot and they must have to provide their own tables and seats and umbrellas. As you can tell from the oil painting, these are local farmers who eke out a subsistence existence for their families out of selling their produce at the market. The umbrellas are many times propped on some else's umbrella and most are cast-offs from the resorts, but they provide some shade from the hot sun for the produce and sellers. It's a noisy, busy place and is set beside the craft market, which on the day we visited was very quiet, probably because there was not a cruise ship in port.