Material Matters

Last Sunday one of my wishes came true!

If only it could have been my main wish for
world peace and fair distribution of wealth...
(deep sigh)

For almost two years I've been "dreaming" about a
way too expensive set of antique specimen jars...

It's origin, we've been told,
an antique set of specimen jars from the university of Namen
with a content of special cacti...

Finally I "haggled" a much better price, only half of the original price, 

suggesting I was an antiques dealer myself (big smile)...

Sometimes patience can be worth while!

The jars being in desperate need of a good cleaning...

You can see an earlier picture of the set in the antiques shop here

Joie de Vivre

Today we accidentally ended up at Vivre...

We left with some furniture measurements and a tiny battered chest of drawers ☺︎

Brocante

It has been a while since we visited the biggest European brocante market...

Lots of people and lots of things to look at...

being on on top of the defensive structures...

some live music...

and an European eagle-owl

Lots of antiques shops are open on Sundays....

And I just keep coming back to these, too expensive, museum cacti specimen jars...

Brocante

Yesterday morning we visited the brocante market in Tongeren...

Hey! some Mainzelmännchen

We really liked the vintage battered orange Renault nervasport car from 1938

but despite the new wheels it was still way too expensive.

 One of the antique shops along the route we visit regularly...

Find some of our earlier visits to Tongeren market here, here, here and here.