VIDE GRENIER

What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon, than to go to a "vide grenier". This emptying of the lofts is a French tradition, which almost every village has. The events are well publicised by bill posters and flyers left on cars on market day. They are an opportunity to divest oneself of all the years' accumulated clutter, or to add some more.

They are a haven also for brocanteurs selling the left-overs from house clearances, but you never know you just might find.............