Hello everyone,  In 2009 or 2010 I think it was, I spent a few weeks in Nice . One afternoon I went to a nearby hill village, Grasse, that is particularly celebrated for perfume. I found a small museum at the top of the village near the main road with a beautiful display of local costumes and lace. There was supposed to be another museum in the village, an official village museum with lace at the bottom of the village near the train station but, as I had spent so much time in the costume museum, I never made it to the bottom of the town.  I took a bus from the central bus station in Nice using information that I could read on a large board. I knew from my language school that any bus ride cost 1 euro. It took a long time for the bus to reach Grasse. I suspect the local train would have been faster but the bus ride was very scenic.  My experience with French museums is that the best ones are in villages or small towns. I have found them to have the most interesting collections of stuff with a surprising amount of lace. There was one in Saintes that was fascinating, and the way in was to first ring a bell by pushing a button on the gate opening onto the street. The gate was not locked. One could easily open it up as we did at first, walk up to the door, and peer in the window at a y oung woman at a desk in the foyer, but that did not get the door open. There was a tiny sign on the door that said something about "la grille" and "la sonnette". Discouraged, walking out the gate again, I turned around to look longingly at the museum, and only then noticed a doorbell button on the gate.  Aha! A lightbulb turned on in my brain .  I pushed the button, and voila, the young lady got up from her desk and opened the door for me in a most friendly way.  Sally Schoenberg Bellingham Washington Â
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