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.

Antique Tiles

The kenderman bought this tile (130 x 130 x 9 mm)

about 20 years ago for 1 gulden.

We think it's a 17th or 18th century tile

from Friesland a so called "springertje".

Update 30-09-2017:
An expert told us it's a Harlinger tile from somewhere in between 1780-1820

We bought another tile from around 1700 with a Tasmanian tiger pictured.

You can find our tile and lots of other tiles here.