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Saturday 19th September - Market Day
We had a lovely breakfast in the main room of Marie & Jean and soon ventured out into the streets to view the market that takes place and the reason not to park your rental car is this space!
There was a cool breeze and we had a wee walk to get to the place where the market starts. A long road that goes around the outskirts of the Old Town has market stalls down both sides of the roadway with the stall owners cars and vans parked on the footpath behind each stall.
The stalls started out as being mostly clothes, mostly cheap, and mostly not worth looking at. Thrown in between were stalls selling all manner of things, tools, knives, batteries, work gloves and watches and spectacles? Then back to clothing, mattresses, scarves, leggings, jeans, jerseys, puffer jackets, you name it there it was for sale and starting at €1.
After about 1km there were fruit and vegetable stalls and then bakeries and croissants and we needed a coffee so stopped at a roadside cafe and had the best coffee so far in France.
After coffee we continued on up the roadway past more and more stalls and it seemed that the further we went the better the quality of the goods for sale. We even heard that comment from another tourist. We had also gotten rid of all the Muslim people of whom most of the initial stalls were either run by or the majority of shoppers were Muslims.
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