Alcúdia market: fresh fruit
Sundays and Tuesdays are the big days for shopping in Alcúdia. Vendors set up just outside the southern and southeastern walls, and stalls run from olives, serrano ham, and fruits & veggies to lacy underwear, pearls, and flip-flops. Food prices in the market are much cheaper than those of the Spar and Mercadona chain stores–and chatting and haggling with the vendors is a big part of the fun.
Mary Hansen, volunteer member of the UP Pollèntia Team, is the designated base camp cook at Ca’n Ramon. All of the shop vendors know her; “Where is May-ry?” is the greeting anyone else in our group receives when we head out to buy some small item she forgot.
Photo credits this page: Ronda Bard
Alcúdia market: pickle skewers
Alcúdia market: many, many vegetables
Alcúdia market: cabbage
Alcúdia market: dried fruit
Alcúdia market: meat stall
Alcúdia market: dried fish
Alcúdia market: candy stall
Alcúdia market: fried egg candy!
Alcúdia market: olive stall
Alcúdia market: shrewd shoppers make their choice
Mary Hansen, una extraordinaria cocinera, takes a shady break at Ca’n Fanals
