Sunday Stroll

Once in a while we visit the largest weekly brocante market of Europe in Tongeren.

You can see my earlier posts here

Joie de Vivre

Today we accidentally ended up at Vivre...

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

Watercolour

We really love the watercolour by Gerrit Neven we bought recently.

But oh boy it can be hard to photograph a framed aquarel

without some kind of reflections in the glass (sigh)

the wooden tower is a work from artist Faan Olgers

Puces de Saint-Ouen

Saturday morning... Paris s'eveille

On our way to visit marché aux Puces St-Ouen
A dream place to the collector

the oldest market is Vernaison

Dauphine market

Biron market

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.

Yard Sale

(photo was taken this morning just before we started)

We really enjoyed the first day of the yard sale!

Too bad we only sold 5 chairs of the 21 chairs we have available ☺︎

You still have a chance to check out our selection yourself

because tomorrow we have a second (last) day of the yard sale.

See you! ☀︎

Treasures from Crisnée

Yesterday we went to a brocante market in Crisnée,

I saw something I liked so I asked: C'est combien? (French for: How much is this?)

The seller in Dutch: Dat! Dat is de tand van een beer! (English: It's a bears tooth)
(we continued our conversation in Dutch, just read my free translation underneath)

Me: That's no bears tooth! It's a bone, just take a look at the structure inside.

The seller: Yes, yes it's a bone... it's a dinosaur bone!!!

Me: That's no dinosaur bone! And I wasn't asking you what it was (smile),

I just want to know your price...

A smiling seller: 1 euro?

 I also found a small torch with a bullseye (aka walleye, dome) lens
and a torpedo style (aka Hamilton's, bomb, egg) soda bottle for a couple of euros.

We already had a simular torch and bottle...

This might be the beginning of a new collection... (big smile)

International Worker's Day

Being Labour Day today, we went to a brocante market in Crisnée.

We're always hoping to find a treasure in the amazing piles of junk.