Where time stays alive. Simply magical.  Brocante, Arcangues

Where time stays alive. Simply magical. Brocante, Arcangues

    There are fairs that you visit and there are others that you enter as if you were in a memory. This is the case of ‘Les Makilas de la Brocante’, in Arcangues, an enchanted village in the heart of the French Basque Country, located in an incomparable...
Bayonne, history-taste and joy

Bayonne, history-taste and joy

It has been a long time since I last visited Bayonne, but every time I go there, I feel it is a welcoming place, with a mixture of history, flavor and joy. Bayonne, located in the southwest of France, in the Aquitaine region, a walled city, evokes a rich history,...
Lille, example of reinvention!

Lille, example of reinvention!

I would never have thought I would find Lille a city worth visiting. From a grey, industrial town in the far north of France, bordering Belgium, Lille has become a beautiful, lively, young university town that mixes historic charm with a modern, cosmopolitan energy....
Ahetze, Brocante- Marché aux puces-País Vasco francés

Ahetze, Brocante- Marché aux puces-País Vasco francés

Those of us who like antiques or vintage pieces are very fortunate to have a Brocante market just half an hour’s drive away.   On the third Sunday of every month in Ahetze, a small and charming town in Iparralde, located between San Juan de Luz and Sempere,...
ANTICO in MEDINA DE POMAR

ANTICO in MEDINA DE POMAR

  I have just returned from a nice day trip, I have visited the Antiques and Crafts Fleamarket, Antico, in Medina de Pomar and I have to admit that it has inspired me to write a few lines about the fair, the town and the valley   I don’t know much...
Brocante O’Plus, Anglet

Brocante O’Plus, Anglet

I have not written anything for a really long time, sometimes one stares at the screen waiting for the words to come but they never arrive… I am living a moment in my life where the words reappear because the inspiration for decoration and beautiful things are at the...