À la chasse

Dispatch from France..

Well, I almost avoided shopping for records during our French and Swiss vacation. I never made it to a recommended Paris shop that was just a bit out of reach from our hotel in the Montparnesse neighborhood. The photos and reviews from Crocodisc looked really, really good though - but the timing just wasn’t right. On our last morning in town, my wife really wanted to hit one of the famous Paris flea markets so we duly made our way to Marché aux puces de la Porte de Vanves in the 14th, an easy 12 minute Uber from the hotel.

On all of my previous trips to Europe, my jet lag had dissipated about 24-36 hours after arrival, but on this trip, a full 3 days after arrival, I only managed to get maybe 2.5 hours of sleep the night before. Annoying! Regardless, I soldiered through a quick perusal of the market and finally, after walking through three longs streets of nothing to speak of, I came across two vendors across the sidewalk from each other that had a