The main themes represented are shop and property signs, cutlery, trade tools, objects of embellishment and enjoyment, and equipment and decoration for churches, homes and doors, particularly locks, coffers and caskets. We visit the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, the Iron Museum, which is housed in an old church in Rouen. It is raining when we leave this morning and we take a photo of our reflection in a store window. How is this for an idea with what to do with all those extra stuffies? A stuffy chair! It is in an empty building that is as interesting as the exhibition. On the way home we pass an exhibition for the France Design Week. …to this highly realistic chess set and globe.

There are wooden shoes that look almost like leather ones, an interesting wooden model in a bottle, a curiosity chest shaped like a women’s torso, and a selection of stone carving tools.Īnd the sugar sculptures range from this fairy tale castle… These wooden models were particularly impressive. There are a lot of interesting models which portray the skills of the various trades. …thinks I should have my picture taken with the Eiffel Tower. Bob likes this model of a 1926 Hispano and. We visit the Compagnonnage Museum, the Museum of the Trade Guilds. …has interesting sculptures holding up the balcony.

This Irish band was playing “Whisky in the Jar”.Ī whole lot of noise was made by this one man band who created his music on a bike, equipped with a keyboard, guitar strings and several other musical devices.Īfter lunch we go for a walk to the Loire River. There were bands playing along the route. There are serious runners, and some not so serious runners. We watched the runners as they pass near our apartment. it took 2 minutes and 45 seconds for the main group to clear the starting gate. …except for these two, who are 5 1/2 and 9 1/2 minutes late for the start of the race.

Bob was up early to see the start of the Loire Valley Marathon.

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