One on the many highlights of a weekend in Prague came as I found myself wandering through a crowded food market set up along the side of the river.
It was 11.30 in the still morning but there were plenty of people walking along with a pint in their hands dispensed from one of the makeshift stalls. Inevitably I felt obliged to join them.
Having done done so I found myself having to juggle the pint with a camera in order to capture some of the activity surrounding a stall selling river fish.
Next to the stall was the back of a wagon on which had been perched a large dark green plastic container.
As an order for fish came in a man stepped on a footstool so as to be able to dip a net into the container. It was full of water and fish and it didn’t take much more than a twist of the net in the water before it came out wriggling with a couple of fish.
Once they were out they were tipped into a metal tray and given a sharp tap on the back of the head before being tipped into a second metal tray for weighing before being passed over to be gutted. It was all done so quickly there was hardly time to catch what was going on.
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