cahors market

I had a great day out in Cahors yesterday. First stop the weekly market, then coffee and pain aux raisins, the huge flea market on the square (the picture of the dolls and odd figures above is the only one I managed to take I was so distracted by everything), then more market purchases and finally a gorgeous lunch. All beneath a perfectly clear blue sky.

There were fewer people than normal - school is back so any tourists with children have gone - but still enough for a nice bustle. Today we drove along the Lot valley to Cajarc to pick up my car from the garage and I had to pinch myself - I get to live here! - I don't have to leave at the end of the Summer! Something everyday like picking my car up from the garage means a drive through some of the most beautiful countryside in France.

A bit of late Summer  sunshine and I go all hello birds, hello trees...

market day #5

Bring your own bottle. Or jerrican! 

In French a jerrican is called a bidon and so is a beer belly...!

market day

How would you like to do your weekly shop here?  

Every Thursday from 8am till about noon.

 Fruit, vegetables, olives, spices, cheese, yogurt and milk from the farm, meat, live fish, chickens and fowl,  ditto dead, ditto cooked, bread, honey, fresh butter,  saucisson (pig, cow, horse, donkey (not kidding)) vegetable plants, flower plants, paella from the paella man who has bread, sausage and red wine for breakfast at 8am, eggs from farmer's wives who stand with their produce in baskets at their feet, unwanted kittens, hand woven baskets, buckets, the itinerant knife sharpener who turns up sometimes, hand carved spoons, wine (in bottles or dispensed  straight from the tanker into your jerrican for 1€ a litre). It's all there!