How to Shop like a Local: What you need to know about French shopping protocol, along with tips for the uninitiated. Sales, returns and exchanges, how to get your VAT tax back, customs limits, how to ship your treasures home, and links to size conversion tables and currency cheat sheets.
Outdoor Markets From flowers to fish, arts to crafts, antiques and flea markets, old books and antique postcards. Morning and night markets, daily and weekly, and of course the famous markets in nearby Italy.
The dates of the Semi-Annual French Sales… when the whole country goes on sale!
Antiques in Nice Between the Port Antique District with over 100 antique shops, and the weekly and monthly open-air Antique Fairs/Brocantes, you can’t go wrong.
Food finds in the Old Town
- The best shops for wine
- best bakeries
- ice cream, chocolate
- olives, cheeses, fresh pasta
- meat and fish
Grocery Store tips If you must got to the grocery store, here’s what you need to know to avoid the steely stares of the cashier and the waiting line…
Gallery districts (coming soon)
French thrift store shopping (coming soon)
Photo credits: Hermes Kelly Bag from Hermes France, Flower Man by Mary Payne, Shopping bags by Photostock/freedigitalphotos.net, Antique Clocks by Ekabhishek licensed under Creative Commons, and Poulet Roti by Best of Nice Blog.
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