Saturday mornings often involve a trip to the local Marché. Most reasonable sized towns have a 'Les Halles', Reims is no different. Halles du Boulingrin is a stunning 1920's very thin arched Art Deco concrete structure recently fully renovated. Enough about the building. The main reason for being there is the great array of food. All the usual fresh produce plus a few more interesting items. A local mushroom stall does beautiful fresh Shiitaké and a range of Pleurote (Oyster mushrooms) including the totally natural pink variety. All very yummy. They are grown in local caves that are 8-12 deg C with 95% humidity. No watering takes place they absorb the moisture from the air.
The very unusual 'Pleurote rose'.
Walking around we came across a stall we had not seen before.....
A fine stall for first thing in the morning, 'Vodka and Caviar'.
That's the way to get you going first thing on a winters morning. It did seem quite popular. Outside I came across a great scooter, Margaret in the front!!! only joking and to my surprise it was a Vespa. Scoots was impressed, from the same stable.
Move over Scoots (not really) a great delivery vehicle.
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