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Beauvais Shopping & Public MarketsFrom: Beauvais, France
In Beauvais, traditional baskets and wicker carts are still used for everyday shopping:
Although Beauvais has a population of only 55,000, you'll find a branch of the Galeries Lafayette department store in the heart of downtown:
For our money, the best bargains in Beauvais are in the Place des Halles, where a public market takes place twice a week. We visited the market on a Saturday, when it was packed with shoppers and their dogs:
Was this dog recovering from surgery, or had its owner found a clever way to keep it from snatching food at vendors' stalls?
The Place des Halles had food offerings for carnivores and vegans alike:
We were impressed by this artistic display of radishes:
There were no cellophane bags of prepackaged nuts at this vendor's stall:
A section of the market featured clothing vendors, including one who sold Cheryl an African hat:
Another corner of the Place des Halles had furniture and bedding merchants:
Having explored the public market and admired its bedding, we turned our attention to a salon for hipsters across the street:
We weren't shopping for a guitar or other stringed instrument, but if we had been, Monsieur Hosstler would have been our man:
A few blocks away in the Place Jeanne Hachette, booksellers had sent up tents for the Salon du Livre de Beauvais - Beauvais Ô Cœur du Livre:
We discovered that, in France, "Where's Waldo? or "Where's Wally?" is "Où est Charlie?"
Next page: A Walk Around Beauvais
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After 4-1/2 years of covering European travel topics for About.com, Durant and Cheryl Imboden co-founded Europe for Visitors (including Paris for Visitors) in 2001. The site has earned "Best of the Web" honors from Forbes and The Washington Post. For more information, see About our site, press clippings, and reader testimonials. |
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