Bollocks to Metropole Zličín!

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A quick recommendation for people visiting Prague: Kolbenova Flea Market. I've never quite seen anything as abundant or chaotic in my life - and I wish we had got there earlier than 12.30, one and a half hours before the huge dusty area, on which thousands of little stalls and camping mats piled with the most random assortments of goods were laid, had to be cleared. Some people had obviously come wanting only to try and sell off old stuff as in a car boot sale, but then there were also a few regular stalls run more professionally, some of which were selling the most bizarre combinations of stock you could imagine:

• Toiletries, sardines and tea (The sardines were in the sale at this time)
• Porn, spirits and blank media
• Old turntables and electric hobs (this could get REALLY messy)
• DVDs, clothes lines and superglue
• Fishing rods, gunpowder and sausages
• Plastering tools, jeans and radishes

inter alia. Jitka and I have resolved to come back here to stock up on supplies for our planned trip this summer (Budapest - Serbia - Bulgaria - Romania - Eastern Hungary - Košice), on which we would save about 75% than if we bought them in shops.

I fully recommend a trip here: on Saturdays between 7am and 1.30pm, take Metro line B to Kolbenova and walk across the road to the old industrial area. You'll see the people.

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