I personally witnessed the charred bodies of Hazara civilians, still locked in their shop stalls and burned alive by the Taliban.
In 2012 it took the internet by storm: viewed an estimated 100 million times, translated into 13 languages, and hung everywhere from shop stalls in Nairobi to luxury boutiques in Brazil.
Passing through the gaudy blue aura of a hotel lobby ("It's fun") and by a gift-shop stall with a naked bulb dangling from a wire ("If you've got the spectrometer, look at the incandescent light here!"), Brandston stopped on Thirty-seventh Street:.2 foot-candles.
There are around 400 shops, stalls and stands.
The concrete blast walls that shielded the shopping stalls have lately come down.
There are in fact ten separate and distinctive markets in one location, with around 400 shops, stalls and stands.
Further north at the Ladies' Market at Mong Kok, below neon signs and sandwiched between restaurants and electrical shops, stalls are laden.
To celebrate his life there, Rochester has held a Dickensian Christmas festival every year since 1988, with shopping stalls, Father Christmas and "guaranteed snowfall".
Uzun Çarsi means "Long Bazaar", and is a connected warren of streets, alleys, ateliers, depots, shops, stalls and places of worship.
The shopping stalls were the first to get going, mid-morning, while the food stalls opened for lunchtime and were still full of the Christmas spirit at 1am on the Christmas market's first Friday night last week.
While many will be there for the spectacle of a true "Lady's Day" at the races, complete with feathered hats, skimpy dresses, fashion competitions and shopping stalls, the highlight is the big race.
