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Don’t you just love old shops like this? I’ve been going to Bazar Victoria ever since I first moved to Sevilla, which used to be a challenge because most things are “in the back” somewhere and have to be asked for. I think the staff quite enjoyed my miming and bad Spanish whilst trying to get across what I wanted. These days I am more likely to see some cool kitchen gagdet in the window and have to get them to explain what it’s used for, which is also fun. Though I can never tell when Amalio is being serious so I’m still not convinced that the cricket cages are for real…
Do you have a favourite old shop like this where you live?
[more about Bizare Victoria on azahar’s Sevilla blog]
casa azahar 
In my neighborhood there is an old-fashioned hardware-cum-five-and-dime place called Ayers’, after the original owner, a man who sponsored all the local youth teams, hired the teenagers in the summers, and so on… they called him the “mayor of the neighborhood.” It’s one of the last shops anywhere in this Yuppifying region where you can walk into a place not much larger than the first floor of my house and buy garden tools, starter plants, electrical parts, yard flags, embroidery floss, furnace filters, kitchen doodads, lawn furniture, nails and screws (and hinges and cotter pins), dog collars, picture puzzles and party favors. Just to name the first things that spring to mind. I make detours to shop there because I want the place to stay in business. The day I decided I needed a bat house I walked in there, and they had one.
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But do they have cricket cages?
Actually like the sound of Mayor Ayer. 🙂
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