shopping

Arcade

Cardiff is famed for its many shopping arcades. The sign over the Taco Bar below (click to enlarge), advertises “unauthenc Mexican food” [sic].

We arrived in Arles late in the afternoon of June 30th, the day before the festival opened. With nothing much to do I decided to reconnoitre the area. Our hotel was out on the edge of town where there are a lot of shopping centers, closed on an early Sunday evening. It was like a vast liminal space, punctuated here and there by a shop people must drive to (see below – click an image to enlarge them).

A first stroll, Antwerp

Meir, a long, broad shopping street puts Fifth Avenue to shame. All of the global luxury and high fashion brands were featured here and, as we moved further West, some less upscale brands like Primark and the ubiquitous MacDonalds. Needless to say, it was chock-a-block with tourists and shoppers. Click any picture to see them all bigger (if seeing this in email you may need to click the post title, above, first).