This is a typical street scene. Someone is selling bananas from the cart in front. The lady behind at the kiosk is selling everything from cookies, to cigarettes to matches and toilet paper.
We have three KFC's in Maputo.
This is the only American fast-food restaurant here.
(I miss Burger King.)
Victoria's Secret.....African Style. There are a couple of lingerie shops here but only for the wealthy. I've seen women trying on bras over their clothes at this "shop". Notice the stuffed animals for sale on the ground.
People here somehow get huge parcels of clothes to sell, obviously from America. You will see the odd, random shirt on someone that say: "Toad Suck Daze, Pickles Gap, Arkansas". Or yesterday I saw one that said Southbury Softball. All kinds of team shirts, college shirt, championship shirts, or shirts that say "My parents went to the Bahamas and all I got was this t-shirt!". It's funny to me that they wear shirts with English sayings and few people speak English in this country. I saw a kid yesterday wearing one that said, "I didn't do it!".
So come visit us in Maputo! You can see cool stuff and buy an interesting t-shirt.
3 comments:
Do you ever buy from the street vendors?
Angie, I forget about how funny the t-shirts are! I love that they have a Toad Suck Days one. I once saw a kid with an Eskimoe Joes shirt from OK on out in the Transkei bush in SA! Love ya, Kenita Self
Reminds me of the guy selling "thipthes and mawbee bawths" :>)
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