Brasov faces

In the market at the bottom of Republici Street you will find all the regular stallholders, and irregular ones, too. Like Victoria, who has a glistening heap of wild blueberries that she and her three children have picked in the forest early that morning.
And on a step in the street, this lady was concentrating on the final touches to her wildflower posies. She only has a few to sell, and needs to sell them all. Despite being a fast-growing European city where property prices have rocketed in the last couple of years well beyond local people's ability to afford them, Brasov is still home to many people who live hand to mouth, quite literally, gathering wild food and flowers from the forests to give themselves a meagre income.