Making friends in the market of Basra
morning my friends, still from basra, in the south of iraq, and you know what, life is back to normal here, finally, so today let's go to explore the market that you saw that was completely empty in the previous video, let's go to see how it is now, so let's see how his life, how his normal life here in basra, and now i am the one who is not in normal life, because yesterday i was sick, i guess i had food poisoning, i had to run to the hotel, to well... oh there how are you... good, and you what's your name, Yves where are you from... france
no, it's okay it's okay so the army guy was, well i did not dare to film him too much, but it seemed he was happy to see me yeah so basically let's just explore the market, and uh see what happens, maybe... maybe i'll get some food, i don't know what kind of food because i'll be careful with the food because i'm still recovering from my uh, from my food poisoning so i will be careful, we will see what happens the mulberries, like always welcome to Iraq, thank you so you can see... wow look at that you can see the market is very different from how it was a few days ago it's very hard to recognize the streets actually oh you see the nice ice creams, i never had an ice cream i don't know if it's the best for my stomach or not, maybe let's have an ice cream yeah change money he's taking me here good yeah youtube from france, yeah good i am from iraq nice to meet you, what's your name, yves i am ali you see, very friendly i am from iraq, okay, you are from iraq, okay good, good, very good it's this one you have juice how much pineapple, 2000 okay can i have one pineapple juice, yeah yeah yeah good yeah and uh but uh no water no water, no water, just ask for no water because... for my stomach good it's good it's good yeah you speak good english, very good you want to go to america, yes let's have the juice and then let's see the others, because everybody wants to talk to me here with the friends in basra cold good so here we have our pineapple juice, it's been a very long time i didn't have a pineapple juice so so good look at the technique, very good okay maybe let's get a sandwich, as we have started, how much 2500 5000 okay, let's eat first, and then we will pay the very classic iraqi sandwich very good meat that's it, done with the food, okay thank you, bye, okay i guess i could not resist because, um well i've not eaten a lot yesterday, and i did not eat anything before today, so i was kind of starving so i guess that's why i didn't resist the food, at the first opportunity so let's go keep exploring the market all the accessories wow okay let's go on the other side, because on the other side of the canal, there is uh yeah on the other side of the canal there is the biggest part of the market and here we arrive on the other side of the market, and some more ice cream shop oh maybe uh later, maybe at the end of the video i'll get an ice cream, salaam what do we do, look at that, all the accessories, well all the jewelry for women, he was repeating what i was saying, let's go for... let's try to find the area with the nuts, i think that's gonna be good for my uh, for my stomach to have some uh nuts, some stuff like that let's get healthy stuff and i think, i think the nuts are this way, i'm not so sure because i explored the market once, when it was empty, you saw it, so i think we went in this street yeah, basra very good okay let's go this way, yeah i say i think we've been in this street before when it was empty, it's funny because you don't recognize anything look at that, nice fancy decorations, and now i guess we are arriving in the hardware section hardware, some tools electric stuff and yeah look at that oh and we arrive at the fishing section, very nice, look at all the fishing rods very nice look at that, so that's all the stuff to go fishing in shatt al arab okay i think i found the the section where the nuts are, let's go buy some nuts that's candies, and that's the nuts yes no, it's okay, i don't want candy what's this very good, okay let's go out and try this, and then we'll buy some nuts, maybe from this man that's the way it works, it works very well in the middle east, when people give you something for free, then if you want to buy, you will always buy from them, okay let's try this candy very strange it's a kind of paste, with a bit of pistachio inside, it's good the man and his parrot, okay let's go to see what the man who gave me the sweet has to sell i check what you have he's giving things all the time now, now i have cashew nuts let's buy cashew nuts can i have um those are spicy, let's get a bit of... let's get the spicy ones, yeah this is spicy oh but
how much... one kilo or half a kilo, one kilo 16000 show me on the phone and also 2 of this oh, i take no money no please no no please come on, no i pay for this okay so now he starts with... he doesn't want me to pay yeah this please no money, no, no, please so 16 so that should be 4 000. okay that's okay okay okay okay so it's almost an adventure here to buy uh to buy something, you you can't pay, you have to insist to pay, at least i managed to pay this time so i've got my spicy cashew nuts, and i've got other sweets that i'm going to eat now where are you from, france visit okay so about the sweets, it's funny because finally i can show you those sweets, i don't know if you remember, but when i did the market tour in slemani in kurdistan, i was looking for some sweets and while i was doing the video i did not find them, then i had a lot of them but without the camera and i never filmed them, and now i finally found them while filming, so that's this uh very... it's like compacted sesame, very densely compacted sesame, okay so let's try the sesame sweets, but... hopefully they are the ones i like
oh yeah that's fantastic, so basically it's very simple, it's um densely compacted sesame, i think with a little bit of sugar, and it's so good, i love sesame, that's the best sweet ever almost for me and it's really incredible to imagine that the... you know the footage i showed you on the previous video where it's all empty, it was filmed the footage was filmed at the same time of the day, like about four days ago so imagine it's it's really it's really funny to see the difference well i guess it would be the same, i mean in europe if you would film uh the markets on christmas day, it would be the exact same actually, but still it's funny to see uh, to actually see such a place full of colors, full of shops everywhere, full of people, completely deserted and empty i think many would like to talk to me but they don't speak english, so they refrain themselves from talking photo okay, i need to go back yeah, i speak english france no speak french speak english speak english, little bit so your name, mahmoud i am yves... welcome okay we have many friends here oh, falafel lunch no i already had lunch i had food before no, but this is for you let's go, they just received their um their lunch, some falafels, they wanted to offer me one falafel, but i told them well i already had food, so i don't need a falafel we are outside, it looks like it's still the market that's the money changing shops, you see that's where you change money, if you want everybody is stopping me now no, i don't speak arabic... where are you from, france tea, tea, okay let's get a tea now where are you from, france, yeah, paris...
youtube in english i need to stir it no internet mbappe, neymar, messi that's the tea water... no, it's okay, it's okay they want to give me water now photo, photo i don't understand, sorry oh, house, this is my house, okay tea good ? very good very good very good here in basra every 10 meters i have to stop for a friend break i need to pay you for the tea... no okay, so i go around okay, so we had a free tea you see, they are changing money here okay let's try to progress a little bit, i'm almost running out of battery for this video where are we going, i mean i guess the video here in iraq is more about meeting people in the streets, than showing anything, i don't know where i'm going everyone... it's crazy here in basra, everyone is so friendly, it's really uh really insane okay let's go, let's dive inside this alley all the faucets well i don't know where i'm going, i don't know what i'm doing anymore, let's just walk maybe until i run out of battery, and that will be it i think beautiful spoons so let's just exit the market, and uh, and that will be it for this adventure in basra and for the next adventure, hopefully i can film it, hopefully i can hopefully i can film it, i'll see, i'll try tomorrow to... well tomorrow for me
tomorrow for me not tomorrow for you, i'll try to catch the train, the night train from basra to baghdad so see you for the next adventures guys, ciao maybe in the train ah
2022-06-18 10:59
