French Markets

These three days (friday, saturday and sunday) in our little town there is a little french market, expositions of wines, crispy breads "baguettes", "pain au chocolat" and patiserie, soap, spices, jewels, napkins, cheese, salami and much more coming from Bretagne the side of France in the north west.
Walking through is exactly like being there, the tipical smell of the soaps (lime, lemon, pompelmuss, jasmin, lavender and thousand more) the spices and precious salt fill the air of the tipical odour you can feel going there; the dozn cheese from cow, goat and sheeps are wonderful to taste, apple cider and wines, goose patè and the crispy "baguettes" you can buy warm cooked uner your eyes, the tipical french bread are in the air making everyone run to buy some ^^

We bought some baguettes and pain au chocolat, (image on the left) some cheese, a pair of typical towels round and with the image of lavender and the word "bretagne" on it, we will use one fot the kitchen and one for Momochan, a napkin for the new house and a pair of soap.

Seems nothing particular but the soap you can buy in France and in theese markets have a particular smell that only french soap have, they sell many types, olive, flowers scent, fruits scent (lemon, lime, pompelmuss, ...), wherever you walk in France expecially at seaside places the smell you will ever remember are jut a few: a mix of lavender, honey and wax, soap, garlic and butter, and the crispy smell of baguettes. I have never found a place in which you can remember so particular smell, thinking of Italy or any of the european country, I cannot think at nothing particular.

Momichan walked around curious followed by daddy and me attracted by the coloured spices, curry, mixtures for spaghetti, strange salts (there was one pink with petals of tiny roses and another completely black with great cristals) peppers, mixtures of tea, the smell of the soaps and the coloured and smelly straw bags and hats, she ran and jumped here and there happy to taste fresh baguette and tiny pieces of cheese, we bought some brioche for breakfast and she tasted with us, lovely taste of butter and chocolate that melts in your mouth, we also bought a baguette and a piece of chese for mum and we went to her house to give her before coming home for lunch.

Strangely and luckily, Momichan despite all pieces of cheese and bread was hungry enough to eat her piece of roasted meat and brussel sprouts (I had put in the oven before going out this morning and programmed so that the oven cooked while we were out, oh what a wonderful invention !) 

After the meal I gave her her little milk bottle, dressed her with her sleep bag and put to bed, she fall asleep immediately.

Cute about this, is that this i the first year but the french sellers said they all will come back next year ! WEEEEEEE so we will have possibility to buy again french foods and some other cute things ^^
As they say then, " a bientot" :)