Today was the first day of the biannual sales which, because of French law (that's right--laws! for shopping!) happen every year in January and June. All the stores (and I mean all of them) have huge markdowns and basically everyone in the country (and probably twice as many foreigners) goes on a shopping spree. In a lot of cases the markdowns don't help because the stuff is so expensive in the first place, but it's the thought that counts, right?
So after theatre, Ellen, Leah, Linnaea and I hustled over to rue de Rennes. The first thing we saw were huge signs saying "FOU FOU FOU!" (fou = crazy). And let me tell you, that is exactly what it was. Hoards of people, pretty much all of them with an H&M bag or five, pushing and shoving and only vaguely mumbling a "pardon" once in awhile, if someone happened to fall underfoot. We only managed to cover H&M and Zara, but I got two dresses and a sweater for less than 40 euro. Which is pretty insane, for France at least. Sadly, the colorful pompom flats at Zara were not on sale, otherwise I would have some.
But my experiences with les soldes have yet to finish! We're going again on Friday, so there's more to come on the shopping madness front.
On a sidenote, it is fait-ing SUPER froid here. Yesterday, and a little less so today, it was positively painful to have exposed extremities for any amount of time. I'm pretty surprised that I still have ears. But tomorrow is another day, and I wouldn't put it past the Paris cold to freeze them off in due time. We shall see.
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