Today there was a brocante market right in our neighborhood, about 20 minutes walk, so that's where we headed this morning. It was relatively small, but being February, and cloudy, and windy we still had perhaps 25 booths to look at. With our time getting short we rationalise that we won't get many more opportunities to "fleece the locals". I suppose there are other things we could be doing but on the whole we've set a pretty high mark for getting around to see the sights. There wasn't anything to really tempt us at this sale, so we caught a bus over to the big weekend market that is next to the Porte de Clignancourt flea market. It's a straight shot from one of the buses that comes within a block of our apartment so we headed over there for the afternoon.
It was very busy today and more dealers were open than anytime in the past that we've been there so we were able to spend several hours going from booth to booth. It was fun to go through and see things for sale that we recognized from the auction at Drouot two days ago.
A couple things tempted, but we were able to resist and a couple more were irresistible. So we came home with another copper pan lid, from E. Dehillerin, and a bit of hand wrought iron decoration, luckily neither is very big and heavy. The pot lid will be perfect for the smaller pans we have in Denver now and for 10 euros, as I said irresistible.
Today there was a brocante market right in our neighborhood, about 20 minutes walk, so that's where we headed this morning. It was relatively small, but being February, and cloudy, and windy we still had perhaps 25 booths to look at. With our time getting short we rationalise that we won't get many more opportunities to "fleece the locals". I suppose there are other things we could be doing but on the whole we've set a pretty high mark for getting around to see the sights. There wasn't anything to really tempt us at this sale, so we caught a bus over to the big weekend market that is next to the Porte de Clignancourt flea market. It's a straight shot from one of the buses that comes within a block of our apartment so we headed over there for the afternoon.
It was very busy today and more dealers were open than anytime in the past that we've been there so we were able to spend several hours going from booth to booth. It was fun to go through and see things for sale that we recognized from the auction at Drouot two days ago. 
A couple things tempted, but we were able to resist and a couple more were irresistible. So we came home with another copper pan lid, from E. Dehillerin, and a bit of hand wrought iron decoration, luckily neither is very big and heavy. The pot lid will be perfect for the smaller pans we have in Denver now and for 10 euros, as I said irresistible.
What will you do with the wrought iron piece? I'll bet it would look fantastic around the patio somewhere!
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