Vernissage Craft Market, Yerevan. Armenia September 22

Situated on Aram Street in Yerevan, the open air Vernissage Market sets up every weekday, though it is at its busiest on weekends, when the locals as well as the traveller wanders its corridors.

I visited mid Sunday afternoon, it was relatively quiet if I am being honest.

C'mon, let's hang out for awhile

The market is not steeped in ancient history, only being in existence since the 1980's, it was the home of local artists who would seek to earn a living selling their artwork to passers by. The artists are now long gone. Today the stalls are an eclectic mix of touristic souvenirs, of all descriptions.

All well made within Armenia, love the artwork on these shoulder bags.

A fine array of junk wonderful treasure, including vintage cigarette packets, complete with cigarettes, I thought they would look pretty awesome framed and hanging on my wall at home, I was told this was a good place to haggle, but my offer of 5 euros and his selling price at 50 euros there was little room for compromise.

A lot of stalls offering musical recorders (god, I am of an age when everyone in school was forced to learn the recorder, although my old dad was a professional saxophone player, I think musical aptitude skipped a generation. I was demoted to chief triangle tinkler).

A lot of stalls offering chess sets of all manner of design, not just traditional.

Hand carved, hand crafted.

Lots of second hand book stalls.....

....and a rather eclectic selection of LP's.

No kids, sorry to disappoint but gen z did not invent vinyl.

And when you don't want to pay your dues for a stall, just chuck a few rugs over your car and hope for the best.

Cheapskate.