The best Brocante market, upper-scale flea market, is in a cow pasture. Those two words don’t seem to go together, but there they are brocante and cow pasture, side by side. Besides looking for antiques one has to be careful of the fresh cow pies. Rubber boots are a must, good eyes too!
Throughout the wee hours of the morning when the selection of the rare finds are at its best, you can hear comments that indicate the surprise of discovery; "Oh great!" Which often means that their foot has found the prize! In France, if you step in "it" with your left foot, it is consider lucky. Though certainly not lucky enough, that at a brocante market, where one hopes to be lucky, one would purposefully step in a cow pie!
This cow pasture-brocante market is twice a year. It is the best market I know, I have never left empty handed! It is the brocante market of ones dreams! And I am not going to tell you where it is! I will say this: If you are lucky enough to discover this market in France, wear rubber boots and I hope you step in the cow pies with your right foot!
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