More Flowers?!
May 7th 2008 Wednesday 7th May
Our initial destination this morning was the Aalsmeer flower auction. In what must be one of the most bizarre trading systems in the world, flower growers from the EU and nearby countries, send their flowers to Aalsmeer, where they are displayed, bid for and dispatched to the purchaser.
Gijs Pol, a computer analyst who has attempted to close the market and create an onlin
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