Sunday, June 29, 2014

Le marché aux puces de Vanves

While Rachel continued her shopping expeditions Friday, Vicki and I did a rest/administrative day. We spent much of Saturday at the Vanves flea market, by far the best we have seen here...interesting stuff, affordable. It is said that the merchants of the Clignancourt market shop at Vanves first.
Pretty much all the stalls are pros, but there is much interesting stuff, most of it
on the scale you could take back home, and it is less pricey/touristy than
Clignancourt

















Street scene















Ditto; it goes on for blocks and blocks















Serious honky-tonk music by the cafe















Lamp of interest















Airy, light-weight coffee table; not of interest















Interesting take on the Farnese Bull















First experiments with being shot out of a cannon? Or possibly a martyrdom in
Constantinople c. 1453? The cannonization of St. Sistine? Anyhow, it was a
pretty neat market; Rachel bought a few nice things (not pictured because they
might become presents), and so did we

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