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The flea market.

Mxico is well known by its flea markets, every chilango has walked through
these singular corridors so full of deep scents and discordants sounds, we
called tianguis and usually are a space where the merchants sell everything
in practically any place, the most have placed in the middle of the avenues.
Probably this particular way of trade speaks most of us than what we can
imagine, so for good reasons and others not necessarily because some of them
are dangerous or make trade with stolen goods and leave garbage on the
streets, but these things happen in any big city.
One of the most traditional is La Lagunilla, this my favorite because I can
chacharear very weird stuffs, chacharear means to buy, sell or exchange
unusual things by a cheaper price.
This market exist since the colonial times, so its very old, La Lagunilla its a
neighborhood in the citys center between eje central and Peralvillo, in this
area are clothes and furnitures markets, but what interests me laids on Sunday
walking straight from Garibaldi near Eje Central.
While youre drinking a michelada you can find old postcards, ancient toys,
vinyl records, old posters movies, strange and dusty books, all things that you
cant imagine, not necessary said that this tianguis has became me an
amateur collectionist.

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