Peddlers

We were then accosted by a bunch of peddlers. There were 3 official stands and the rest were just guys roaming up and down the beach with bags of stuff. We checked everything out so we could see what we wanted and not act too interested. There was one artist whose paintings we liked so we asked him to come by our hotel later on, as we had no money with us. We ended up getting four paintings from him. It was hard bargaining, I am way too soft for it. Pete is pretty good so we kind of play good cop/bad cop with it. The main thing is to NEVER let them see the money in your pocket. We just picked out a bunch of stuff, said we had only this amount and started to walk away when they said it wansn't enough. In the end I am sure still payed too much, but this stuff is hand-made, not made in China. We went back on Sunday and got what we had scoped out the day before. I was very proud of us for doing it on our own, with no interpreter.