Any opinions on a nice Saturday market in the Vaucluse? We've been to many markets and I've honestly never met a market I didn't like. We plan to visit two larger markets (Isle sur la Sorgue on Sunday and the one in St Remy on Wednesday). A smaller market is fine on Saturday. I know there's large ones in Apt & Uzes but they are both about an hour away from where we're staying and I was kind of hoping to visit one that we hadn't been to.

ILP

Visit the one in Bedoin on Monday morning. It's my wife's favorite. Five mins from where you are staying. We'll be there on June 19 & 26th.

Stu Dudley

If ever the weather is nasty, Les Halles in Avignon is always great if you are actually shopping for food. If you are just looking and not buying, it's only good for about 15 minutes.

We're going in late May and hoping to see some fields of poppies instead of lavender this time around. Haven't been to the market in Avignon but sounds great and I'll look into Bedoin as well.

Les Halles is not an outdoor farmer's market. It's an indoor permanent "food hall".

In July 1999, we had lots of friends visiting us when we stayed in a Gite near St Remy. We all went to Les Halles in Avignon and purchased food for dinner. It was my wife's 50th birthday celebration. We went to a poultry vendor and ordered 2 Poulet Fermier, 2 Bresse chickens, and 2 Pintades. All stuffed with olives and "rotisseried". We came back 1 1/2 hrs later and picked up the poultry and also purchased "stuffed" this & that (tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, etc) and had lots of rose & Chateauneuf du Papes wine for dinner that night. We were very late getting up the next morning. Fabulous evening.

The Avignon "festival" was happening while we were there - wonderful "street" entertainment.

We returned to Les Halles about a week later and complemented the poultry vendor on her "preparations". She was "beaming with pride" because she helped some "foreigners" enjoy the bounty of France.

Stu Dudley

Yes, I figured the market in Avignon was an indoor market since Kerouac suggested it if the weather was lousy.

Your wife's birthday dinner sounds divine to me! I would absolutely love to live in a place where markets like these were part of our daily lives! We will stay in hotels this time around so we won't have the opportunity to have dinner at "home".

Fantastic.
Remembering a poulet rôti 18 years later is something that defies the imagination of an European.
Seems france should communicate on that.

We have the best chicken in the world. Great taste. I swear. France is the best for chicken. We put france first when it comes to chicken.

We've enjoyed around 60-80 Poulet Rotis in France since then. Always our first Sunday meal when we get to our gites. I make chicken stock from the carcass and any leftover pieces.

Stu Dudley

Hi ILP,
Lauris apparently has a Saturday market, with the same same vendors as at Lourmarin, selling their goods at half-the-price.
I am done. The end.

Apt is the best, I think on Saturday but it isn't clear to me where you are if that is an hour away. For smaller places, there is a market Saturday at Pernes-les-Fontaines whcih should work for you.

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