This is a real treat, being able to buy fresh fruit and vegetables nearly every Sunday in the year, at the Waterloo train station, only 2 miles from our house. They sell just about everything here, from produce to purses to pillows to olives (one stand must have 15 different kinds) to suitcases to watches to escargot to house plants. As you can see, it's quite colorful.
As for prices, well, they are like most everything else in Belgium: not cheap. You can still occasionally find a bargain (house plants are a good example), but they're few and far between. Here are a couple of examples of what we pay for things:
* loaf of fresh bakery bread = $4.30
* apples = $1.30/lb.
* tomatoes = $1.09/lb.
* oven-roasted chicken = $9.75
* Gouda cheese = $9.70/lb.
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