Amazing Flea Market

This is what the town of Delft is also popular with - it offers one of the most outlandish flea market we have ever encountered.

On every Saturdays between April and September, the flea market appears to create a festive atmosphere in this town. Crowds of people throng the market to see what are on offer. If you are into antiques and ornaments, this is the place to go.

The flea market is basically a thin, winding market that uses many alleys, roads along canals, courtyards and small squares. It is well spreads out, disappearing down narrow alleys, then re-emerging into the courtyards and the squares.


One can stroll along the canals and narrow alleys to view a fabulous range of antiques, flowers, books and various household and collective ornaments - items that seem to be useless but amazingly are being sold. Apart from that one could also find elaborately decorated teacups, small vases, glass wares, old maps, painted miniatures, photographs and so on. Then there are the old tables, chairs and cabinets, boxes of old china, pictures of saints, and so on.

We are not really sure how the system work, but seems that anybody could just set up a stall and sell anything. The items are either displayed on a long table under a small canvas tent or simply arranged on a polystyrene sheet laid on the floor of the alleys.

Basically one could delved endlessly looking at the items on display and to see if anything interesting to buy. We were today just looking around and enjoying the company of the crowd.