Finally the long awaited day has arrived.

I wanted to leave by 5:30 which would put us in to Amiens around 7:00.
It was very easy to get up at 4:45 as I didn’t sleep a wink.
I felt like a child on Christmas eve.

When we arrived at 7:10, the parking at the Hotel de Ville was full.
It was damp, cloudy and cold and dawn was casting it’s first light.

How could I possibly be smiling at this time of the morning?

We were hunting by 7:30.

Some really wonderful things, and loads and loads of people.
Vendors were a little more inclined to ask higher than normal prices for their items and not bargain because of the large percentage of foreigners (guess you could say that includes me). But regardless, I found a lot of little treasures, for a little more money than I would normally pay. And the people! truly each time we’d turn down another street all you could see was river of people’s heads in the middle and stands on either side.

We were non-stop until 5:00pm until
our legs couldn’t carry us any further,
our arms couldn’t carry any more treasures,
and the vendors were starting to pack up.

Here’s just a small sampling of todays finds:

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