In the Dutch city of Delft (Delfti) I felt like an Indian yogi, who silently observes life. We sat down with one of my neighbors in groups - from Kiev, Viktor at tables around a bar and then drank beer. Before our eyes are, as we call them, flea market or second-hand market. In the Netherlands about such markets are saying: if the woman stole a bag, then in half an hour, it can be found at the flea market. And these trade shops interspersed with narrow canals, walkways create a unique atmosphere, as if the town and got stuck somewhere in the Middle Ages. Resembled my holiday in Rhodes, Greece - there are also many markets souvenirs enduring its nothing passed a local touch.

is definitely on the shelves can be considered the product of local" Petrikovka "as I would have called it. You ever seen a vase farvorovuyu Petrikovka Ukrainian village in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where local craftsmen painted plates with all sorts of bright patterns in the national color? So we were able to visit "local petrikovtsev".

Practically Dutch specially for tourist groups have joined with the museum shop: we not only saw the fruits of their hands, but also had the opportunity to observe the process of creation. You could even say that this process differs little from the Ukrainian. A ready-made creation? Local fog and gloomy weather did not contribute to the characteristic Ukrainians brightness and splendor of colors and because the color traditionally reserved, mostly white and blue hues. I bought myself a little souvenir from the white-blue image of the traditional Dutch windmills.

tour guide told us that the Dutch masters Europeanise ancient Chinese tradition - the use of Chinese blue and white tones. Drinking beer and nalazhdayas purchase of souvenirs, I thought - and indeed by this gray northern sky with haze to see the bright sun which would be reflected in the art masters would be really weird.