Cee’s taken a well-deserved break for a few weeks, so the Oddball Photo Challenge will run for more than one week. In honor of that, I have more than one oddball. 🙂 However, all of them come from my July trip to France. Enjoy!
This is something I certainly didn’t expect to see on the shelves of the local Colruyt store where my s-i-l shops!
A decoration from “our” restaurant in Plombières-les-Bains, a sheepish Napoleon perhaps?
No, you’re not in Brussels and this isn’t the original Maneken Pis (“little man pee) found there. Original or not, the whole idea is more than a bit quirky, at least to me, and left me dumbfounded for a moment after seeing it, as I knew where the original was and had seen it in the mid-seventies!
For the fourth anniversary of the liberation of Colmar, the city of Brussels represented by his burgomaster, Adolf Max, delayed at Charles Sengel, Mayor of Colmar, a reproduction of the most former bourgeois of Brussels in to remember the common sufferings endured by the Belgian and the Alsatian during the first German occupation.
http://etienne.biellmann.free.fr/colmar/en/mannekena.htm
This, that and the other thing 
Lovely oddballs – I adore the horse wearing the hat!
I thought that was cute and also funny, as it made me think of Napoleon.
janet
Haha Love the Napoleonic horse and that little Manneken-pis always makes me smile. 🙂
I find Manneken to be an oddity of a choice, but as they say now…whatever! 🙂
janet
Love the horse and the hat.
I got a good laugh from that, too, Raewyn.
janet
These are all great Janet, and very apt. I have to ask though: did the Starbucks cups actually contain coffee? How does that work??
They were actually Starbucks drinks, Su. I guess Starbucks is getting around the globe the way McD has. I know some years ago when our younger daughter and I were in London, there were S’bucks everywhere. I was surprised to see their drinks in a grocery store this way, though.
janet
I’ve seen Starbucks outlets in France and UK (as well as NZ and Australia) but never “pre-made” drinks on grocery store shelves. It just doesn’t make sense to me as a coffee drinker. Oh well; globalisation huh.
There certainly aren’t any Starbucks near this town, so I guess this is the next best thing. ☕️
I saw that fountain in Belgium but what was even stranger was going to a chocolate shop to see that ‘little’ guy about 6′ tall and made out of chocolate. 🙂
I can well imagine that was strange! 🙂 Not sure I’d want to eat that particular “statue!:
janet
I loved the sheepish Napoleon!!
I think he’s much cuter than the real Napoleon, Aletta. 🙂
janet
Hi Janet, wonderful odd balls as always 😀
Welcome back, Cee. Hope you didn’t have an oddball break. 🙂