kellan_the_tabby | For Olwyn...I think you work here a couple weeks a year, yes?

"I myself, being a Cappadocian tourist from abroad...wanted to see everything there was to see at the same time, to make sure I didn't miss a thing. So I climbed up a hill overlooking the fair where I could sit down and observe everything at leisure. And this is what there was. There were merchants' booths facing each other, set up in parallel rows. These rows extended for a long way and were far enough apart to form a walkway in the middle that was wide enough to allow space to move for the teeming crowd...at various points at an angle to the rows, other booths were set up...and there were all kinds of men's and women's clothes both woven and spun..."

From a 12th century Byzantine text describing a visit to Thessaloniki for the festival of S. Demetrios.