Un Coffret des Echecs

I finally bought a chess set! After a few hours of checking out each of the boutique game stores I had looked up, I finally settled on Games in Blue on rue Monge. It was a charming, quaint little closet of a place, but the owner was a cute little grandpa man who was incredibly helpful. I probably spent at least ten minutes just taking it all in, walls of chess sets, dominoes, tarot cards, carefully ledgered board games and stacks of spinning tops. The set has a cute little pair of handles so that I can easily carry it wherever I go. It looks like a small wooden briefcase that I'll most likely be taking to local cafes and parcs to try out some of the chess moves in a book I bought before le depart. 

edit: later in the day, i took my new chess set to a cafe where i was meeting samira for some foods. i set it up, pulled out my handy-dandy chess puzzle book and started figuring them out while samira ate some sort of pastrami bagel sandwich. eventually she decided to try her untested hand at "les echecs" so we set up the board and i promptly (accidentally) check-mated her in a few moves. The second game we made more instructional than anything else. to our surprise and intense pleasure, so many little french grandpas would slow down, stop or even linger and stay to watch us play. one even demonstrated to us in french what all the pieces were called and the vocabulary of the game in french was...AMAZING!