L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Market

Some haze and 26°C Market day in L'isle-sur-la-Sorgue, and what a market!! The old part of town sits on an island surrounded by canals and channels of the gentle Sorgue river. It is here that the vast market is located. It meanders along the canals and ...

... But at least I think I'm finally starting to see how the light plays with the camera lens. We explored the famous Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Sunday market, some of us more than others, and ran into so many sites, sounds, and smells we almost decided to ...

... ; So with a significant amount of research, we headed to L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and to Le Vivier for lunch. L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a town in the Vaucluse that straddles five branches of the River Sorgue, with little canals and waterways running ...

... back home to pick up Sally.  But what a morning! Having picked up Sally, we headed east to Ile-sur-la-Sorgue, described as the Venice of France and home of the largest antique market in Europe on Sundays.  Oh well, it wasn’t Sunday, and ...

... visit would be determined by who was having their market on that day.  It was Thursday and that was market day for L'Isle Sur La Sorgue.  We plugged it into our precious little GPS device and took off down the hill and into the Luberon Valley. ...

... windows. It is really relaxing just walking around the streets and feels very safe even late at night. Sunday is market day in L' Isle Sur la Sorgue, we got out early and had one run through the place before the crowds arrived. Bought some chicken, ...

The market was a mish mash of antique furniture, old postcards, lamps, dishes, and linens.  Lots of beautiful linens with former owners' engraved initials.  Sadly, there were none that claimed me.  I did find the one thing I had hoped for ...

... ) this time out about 18k’s through the countryside. It was a pleasant way to start the day. L’ isle Sur La Sorgue has another market day on Thursday so we wandered around that for a while before heading off for our big ticket item of the ...