Irene Village Market — Attraction in Ekurhuleni Ward 89

The Main reason my guest-friend and I visited: her last morning, before flying back the evening, after 2+ weeks business-trip in South Africa. Her annually gift and African place mats, cloths, mugs, souvenir shopping. As her hostess, landlady, she spoiled me with amazing gifts, from avos, chilli sauces, olives, artichokes from the Olive Lady, an artistic addition to my health kitchen corner : grating plate - so much to do - (name on bottom of the plate): I use it every single day, grinding my fresh ginger, garlic, carrot, nuts, lemon orange peel, for home made salad dressings, and sauces.

I love the vibe. She came all the way from Czechoslovakia, to show me the Irene village market 😎 (I was not here, but at Ludwig roses, longgg ago.)

When lunch time came. The Vegetarian Food for me was easy to find, not in wrap, but plated, next to the Olive Ladies stall... (from carnivor keto to under supervision wellness eating plan) it was Great fresh food💞 Steak roll for her, and beer. She loved it. Wine tasting, few bottles were 'exported' that day, as gifts 😁🍷

Love love Love the bench we ate at, shared with a Mom and her young children, (all cyclists) while they were sipping on what looked like bubble tea 😍 introducing ourselves to each other, and Mom explained to the children that shown interest.. where on the map 'this happy, friendly lady, with accent, is from. Her husband and their eldest son arrived from cycling... We just finished our meals, and made space for this beautiful Family meetup outing.

Stopped at Ludwig Rose's on our way out... I was blessed with another gift, Iceberg standard (deep purple wine colour) to plant in my 'being created herb garden'

Such a fun and memory making day, under the plenty trees, in nature, and under sunny African Sky.

Thank you for an Amazing Outdoor Quality market for young, old, fit to wheelchairs, doggies and all.

Proudly South African 👌

Will...

This market was really a lovely outing. Highly recommend a go; yearly! R10 parking. Great vibe. Wish there were more food stalls though and a cocktail pop-up. Would also ne great if there were more vegetarian ones options...and more fresh fruit juices. The one guy ran out, and can only imagine why. It was amazing. I was also impressed that tap and go pay tech worked everywhere so we dint have troubles with touching anything or many things. People were decent about social distancing and I wish I knew you were allowed to take dogs. Only given that you can control it and/or if its public behaved. You can also go to the same area with your mountain bikes and go for beer or chill for a drink and markets thereafter. Thumbs up from me as...

Did some flower picking, they had a bestie package, which was very cute. We picked 30 flowers in total for R270. My advice would be to bring your own bucket because we had to buy one, just make sure it is deep enough. They give you a clipper and stick to measure how long the flowers must be to cut. Afterwards, they take the flowers and bundle them nicely together for you. Definitely go in the early morning for summer time, it gets rather hot quickly, and the flowers wilt. The rest of the market was very cute and a great variety of foods, limited seating area. There was a live saxophone musician, which was lovely to listen to. And everything was dog friendly. Bathrooms...