Finally we can relax after two weeks in hotels and with restaurant food. Lots of laundry out on the line (sun and warmth has finally found the Vendee), a trip to the store for supplies, resting, napping and reading, joining the folks in the big house after dinner for a chat.
Since there is time – and it is open, we head back to the depot vente (consignment shop) to find a few goodies, among them a small faience basket. Remember the pricey plates we saw in Quimper? Here was a little one in the shape of a basket, and I have to saw it was only 3 euro ($4) compared to the $30 or so it would have been in Quimper. This is why we like the depot ventes!
And as we head out of the store, we are required to go around a round pointe, and what do I see? A sign for a vide grenier, literally “empty attic” sale in the next town. So we fly around the round pointe a second time and take the correct street to the vide grenier. It turns out to be not really a garage sale as we had understood from talking to Pauline, but more of a traveling flea market. Tom tours around looking at tools, I tour around looking at – another set of small silver spoons, and the loveliest embroidered pillow cases I have yet seen, and I’ve been looking at them for years. I take some time and bargain with the lady, and finally manage to get her price down about 15%, and ….sold. Later Jeanne takes a critical, appraising look, and pronounces the price correct – and the value, along with the workmanship in the pillowcases excellent. So I’ve passed some test in French housewifery!
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