The word 'stalls' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a stand with a roof where goods are exhibited and sold at a market, or a type of enclosure used to house animals such as horses. For example, "The farmer set up a few stalls at the farmer's market and sold his vegetables."
Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.
I'd be in the stalls, losing my lunch.
In market stalls beside them, women huddle together whispering to each other and knitting alpaca woollen hats and socks to sell to tourists.
Within a short walk, past the madrasa, are the Forodhani Gardens, a seafront sanctuary filled with walkways, benches and food stalls.
The hottest ticket in town was a sold-out seven-course degustation dinner but there were plenty of food stalls featuring local produce at the Taste of Tasmania foreshore party for those who missed out.
Whoever is in charge of the stalls area has a sense of humour.
A few stalls in the lanes sell basics, at inflated prices because of the cost of bribing their guardians.
Syria's second city, Aleppo, has the best souks in the entire region – miles of medieval alleyways lined with stalls selling everything from milk to silk.
And then he sat for 45 minutes in the stalls, completely on his own, just thinking.
As well as being one of the world's most densely populated areas, Mumbai has very little public space: there are virtually no open parks and no riverside, pavements are often full of market stalls, parked cars and potholes (if there is a pavement at all) and scary traffic means running at the side of the road really isn't a sensible option.
Like all of Guyana, this area is untouched by large-scale tourism, and so there are no stalls selling postcards, no internet cafes, no protective fences against the cliff's edge.
