seen at the flea market-2's by plancarpin

L'Isle - France, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur I'sle sur Sorgue, little town close to Avignon, boasts a very active flea market every sunday. here are old bowls, used in the 20es, usually around Lyon. In the south of France, the tradiotonnal bowl game is called pétanque, and is played with small and lighter polished bowl.

Uploaded: Oct, 27 2008 | Taken: Oct, 26 2008| Viewed: 40 times  | 5 votes Camera: Panasonic | Model: DMC-FZ50 | Exposure 10/1250s, ISO 100 | FLength: 38mm | SW: Ver.1.0

pesu - Oct, 27 2008 05:10pm JP, pretty structure - do you play pétanque? plancarpin - Oct, 27 2008 08:10pm yes! much easier than playing with those big and heavy bowls yuliangpang - Oct, 28 2008 02:10pm I know they were for a kind of play, but i really do not know what kind of play they were for? pesu - Oct, 28 2008 02:10pm Yuliang, do you know Boccia in Italy? plancarpin - Oct, 28 2008 03:10pm Yuliang, here an article on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boule_Lyonnaise and if you want to see it live, here it is: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=boules+lyonnaises+&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=fr&emb=0&aq=f# China is participating to the world Championships as well! aufgehts - Oct, 29 2008 11:10pm JP, are these bowls or balls? I would think it would be difficult to roll some of them. plancarpin - Oct, 30 2008 02:10pm Jill, they are bowls..dating back from 1920 and around..the average size is like a pomelo...but much heavier..and less juicy! ;-)