french market day

For the third year we are lucky to have the French Markets in our little town.

It's a sunny day and daddy has a half day free so we go to take a look. Momi is enchanted by the stalls, colours and perfumes, she tells us she want a pretzel so we direct to the bread stall, everything there is inviting and has a good smell, we buy a croissant for me, a pretzel for her and a pain chocolat for daddy,baguettes and croissants quicky come out the oven and the smell is really yummy ^O^

Nearby there is the stall of soaps, many different soaps with different colurs and smell attract us, I but two small heart shaped lavender soaps for Momichan and another strawberry normal shaped for us, the man wraps the soaps and gives us as present some lavender flowers to put in the drawer, Momichan takes her soaps happily.

The banquet of napkins is also interesting and some are really gorgeous but prices are terribly high. Some other stall sell cheese, wines, ham and salami, paté, spices, neckalces and jewels and also jackets, pullovers, scarfs.

We also stop at the spice stall and buy some special mix for pasta and some herbs to use everywhere (salads, pasta, grill ...) there are many curry, blue salt, pink salt from Himalaya, a special black salt from some carribean isle, pepper, special mix for salads, grill meat, soups ... the smell and the colours are incredible, Momi looks at in total astonishment.

Our "Naviglio" is dry at the moment for cleanings, there are too many weeds (see foto on the left), it is curious to see and Momi asks worried where fishes have been put.

We talk about organizing a little trip to the french Cote D'Azur (Nice, Menton ...) and show Momichan a little piece of France, I guess she would amuse, new smells, colours, tastes, I think she would amuse so much also eating new foods ^O^

After one hour Momichan start to be tired, is time to go home and prepare lunch, Momichan is in my arms and she puts her head on my shoulder pretending to sleep. I guess we will come back tomorrow to buy some other croissants and baguettes, eventually some other spices ^^ Bye bye french market ^__^

french market ...

For the 3rd year in our town we will have the French Markets !!! In the old town on the river just in front of the Townhall 24/25/26 february there will be french stalls coming from many sides of France, they will sell cheese, soaps, honey, wine, lavender items (oils, creams, honey....) chokolates, bags, napkins, towels, pullovers, spices, fresh bread and croissants, sweets and much more ^O^

Every year we wait for it and we always buy fresh bread, croissants and spices, first year we bought a couple of napkins, fresh bread and croissants, last year I bought a summer straw bag too and always fresh bread and croissants plus a couple of cheese.

The smell along the market is yummy because some stall also cook some food (sausage and potatoes and some other strange things I don't remember), during sunny days you also smell lavender, soap, straw and garlic, the tipical odours of the lower coast of France I like so much^O^