Then I went to a garden that was attached , through a deliberately not very well signposted, passage to the place des Vosges. It was very tranquil with 3 interesting statues in the middle. However sitting on a stone bench, the only available type of seating, soon gets to be quite uncomfortable.
I wandered on past various places i saw when i was staying in the area in 2019 till I got to my destination, a wool shop. I glanced in and quickly realised that i needed lunch before tackling it. It was immense with lots of staff, people looking and people in 3 queues at different desks. I was there for a little bit of a few different yarns for my butterfly project for Wendy's new stole. In one part of the shop there were many shelves stacked full of large cones of different colours and thicknesses of yarn ( 1 cone per each colour and thickness) It was sold by weight. You took what you wanted to 1 queue and the lady would weigh out as much as you wanted and the machine wound off your yarn into a ball. But I wasnot prepared to say what I wanted till I knew what it would cost. I was sent to a different queue, but then I was told I was in the wrong queue, etc, etc, my ignorance about how the very peculiar system worked . But people in queues in wool shops are usually quite chatty and interesting to talk to. Despite the time taken I was pleased with the outcome and will go back next week. They also sold a bit of material but heaps and heaps of buttons and bits and pieces to sew onto things. No threads
That was enough for the day.
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