#french shops

Because in France we actually have one. 

It is a franchise called “Le Bazar du Bizarre” (translation of the trope name). This is a franchise of shops specialized in science fiction and fantasy. They sell everything nerd and geeks can ever dream of: card games, board games, tabletop games, roleplay games, comic books, figurines, toys, mangas, everything! 

They also hosted card game duels, and roleplay parties, and stuff like that, it was so cool! This is where I bought my Horror at Arkham games, my Discworld board games, some of my Magic card games, and other things like that!

The “franchise” (if it can be called a franchise) opened in 1997, and was at first five shops spread across all of Northern France.

Now it’s... only three shops. There used to be one in Paris, but it apparently disappeared (probably crushed by the appearance of other manga-only or comic book-specialized shops), and there used to be one in my town. It was part of one of the shopping areas, with old fashioned buildings entirely made of tainted glass, with offices on top and shops at the ground level. Shops, post offices, even a restaurant if I remember well? It was an entire block. They got rid of it when they decided to extend the RER station nearby (I think it’s RSP, for English speakers?). So they got rid of the entire block and made this huge RER station. 

Tea and coffee shop in Provence. You can almost smell the roasted coffee beans.

I would have the most fabulous home if I lived in France- just look at this shop. (I’ll have one of those, one of these...)

It is always a good time to do shopping in Lyon!

Shopping & shopping & shopping. It is always a good time for doing shopping. When it is freezing cold in France, you can easily hide in the shopping center and equally when the weather is too hot, you will use shops to chill out. But lets face it. This is not all, we can and should do shopping anytime we want. And now where should we start? Well, let me present you the Best Places in Lyon to do…