A little over a year after the last edition, the Rodez quarterly fair has made its return this Friday morning, in the streets and in the squares of the hypercentre.
Frankly, Flo, the basin, I do not recommend it. It’s Chinese plastic; it does not last two months “, warns Naïma. Stopped for a good 10 minutes in front of the “hardware store, bazaar: everything for one euro” stand, the two lifelong friends came especially from Villefranche-de-Rouergue to do some shopping at the quarterly spring fair and to eat a little restaurant. then. “If we have any money left”, nevertheless specifies Florence in a joking tone. It must be said that the stop at the “Tout à 1 euro” stand can quickly prove fatal. The hands and arms of the two thirties are loaded with more or less useful everyday objects. “It always serves”, Naïma nevertheless estimates, grabbing a box of clothespins and cotton tea towels.
An expected return
Like the two girlfriends, yesterday morning there were many fans of fairgrounds and good deals. Faithful from the very beginning who were impatiently waiting for the merchants to return. “Four fairs per year (spring, summer, autumns, winter) we went to zero fairs in 2020, because of the pandemic ”, recalls a fairground from rue Marie. “It is to say if we are happy to be there. ” “Since we are again authorized to unpack, on May 19, I have not taken a single day of rest”, says Jean Andrieu. The leatherworker left his stand on rue Marie to join the Place du Bourg and the stand of his friend Baptiste, alias Tarzan, to discuss the fat tip. “It’s been a year since we last saw each other. So, we have a lot of things to say to each other ”, smile the two traders, together with more than 30 years of presence at the Ruthenian fair.
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