Market Time

Versailles has one of the best market in France on the Place du Marché Notre Dame. I love going there with my Mum, on Tuesday, Friday or Sunday morning. 3 mornings/week and the mood is always different, even if the market gardener are always the same, and so are the tourists...

First stop at the cheese seller. So good products and a wonderful team, really nice ! Remember my post about my haircutter ? Well, his rival is the cheese seller ! And the girls are so sweet (one of them has so beautiful eyes !!! So beautiful ! Always the perfect make up to go with ! Usual, she tells me she loves my bag or my earrings, so I tell her that she has beautiful eyes !)

Another stop to the mushroom seller ! I love them ! There are 4 or 5 and are here since ever. They know my parents perfectly, and so everytime my Mum comes to buy some mushrooms, they are telling us "Well, not this one, take this one, it's perfect. How many did you ask me ? Oh, sorry, I put more, well don't worry, you'll pay the price of the weight you wanted, the rest is a gift !" Always like that ! Believe me, when the mushrooms are perfect fall ceps, you're more than happy when you pay 1,5 kg, the price of 1kg !!!

Then, a first butcher. This one is selling products of South West of France, so if you want something like a good Foie-Gras, this is where you have to go ! The two guys (and the new one - well he's here since almost 2 years now ...) are wonderful too ! Always something to tell you, or a new joke, or a gossip about this person or that one ! One of them, Monsieur Jean, is having coffee just behind the shop. And this is where I go too when I'm having a coffee with friends. And so, when we see each others, we talk a little bit, and he tells me if he saw my Mum or not the same morning. He's saying hello when he sees me in the street. He is a great guy !

The other butcher is great too, and their products are perfect !! This morning, my Mum wanted to abandon me there against some meat and the boss said ok, even if I could disturb the rest of the team ! What I know is that the lamb we ate at lunch was very good, and the big ham that my Mum took for tomorrow evening will be perfect too !

Anyway, I love this place. It's perfect. A lot of colours, a lot of people. When everybody leave, the cleaning guys are coming and 2 hours later, no more trace of the market !
A lot of work ! Especially when Mum and Dad decide to organize just a little "back-to-work dinner", and that the little dinner counts only 18 people !

Mum and I spent 2 hours this morning with French beans, carrotts, and cauliflower, because Mum wants to make some achard for tomorrow ! (So lovely to cut 1 kg of French beans in two !!!)




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