Today we rose early to visit both the local supermarket and the weekly street market in Chalais. We parked in the Avenue de la Gare and drifted down the street to see the various stalls. The first few were selling virtual rubbish but one stall really amused us. It was selling corsets and girdles - we thought these garments had gone forever! Further along we found a cheese stall where we bought our favourite French cheese, Tomme. The stallholder was able to offer about a dozen versions. We didn't know there was also a soft version of this cheese which we first sampled on our first voyage on the ferry, Pont-Aven.
There were numerous stalls selling clothing, some of which probably first saw life in the Ark! We stopped to buy a nutmeg grater at a stall selling kitchenware. We found a deli in the next street where we bought some ham. There were about four stalls offering many kinds of fish and seafood. It was easy to see which was the most popular as there was a queue building up rapidly. Another stall specialised in many different types of olives. Another offered some interesting furniture whilst another seemed full of well crafted lemon wood objects. Pauline bought a "secret box" for her jewellery. One stall was actually a van kitted out as a kitchen where you could buy cooked chicken and other meats as well as chips.
The biggest surprise was a man who had for sale a live rabbit and a piglet!
We went back to the car and parked it in the supermarket car park where we took our empties to the bottle bank and then bought more food and wine. It is quite breezy today so we might not be too keen on using the swimming pool. Watch this space!
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