The sun rose bright and early, heralded by the joyful reverberations of church bells. Mothers and their sons, grandmothers with rolling trolleys, everyone was heading down to the center of Lorgues where the Tuesday market was in full swing.
Flowers, sun hats, shoes and clothes, knickknacks and paintings, everything was for sale at the stalls teeming with shoppers! The tents and tables seemed to stretch around the coffee shops and cafés for a mile.
After passing through all the clothing, accessories, and household goods, the farmers, bakers, and sauce makers stood by colorful arrangements of delicacies.
Browsers walked by with thimbles of wine, snippets of cheese and sausage, and often paused to dunk bread into sauces.
Locals with baskets full of crispy breads, local cheeses, and little bags of spices intermingled with tourists buying loads of spreads and wines for friends back home.
Lourges, its restaurants, its markets, and its charm, is the jewel of a Provincial trip.
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