Showing posts with label Selina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Selina. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

Farmers Markets beucoup

We are having a great time visiting Farmer's Markets around the area. Today was the market in Nyons. While Selina shops, Patricia takes her photographs, which means shopping takes twice as long; the results, however, will be totally captivating in both ways, Selina's food and Patricia's pictures.
Mouth watering figs

An amazing variety of sausages

Every market has its Paella

Garlic in great abundance and a boy showing off

This is a major olive growing area

Fresh bread, anyone?

Sweet cantelope

Puff pastry, tapenade, cheese, tomato and basil grilled; yum

Olive oil, olives, tapenades right from this area

Love her mauve blouse for selling lavender bouquets

Bulk spices by the bag full

Local residence overseeing the market in the plaza

Olive oil soaps

Du fromage, madame?

Selina's favorite cheese, Morbier. Delicious

And provided by her special 'bio' merchant

Colorful seafood presentation with a huge variety

Great mural of a classic old Citroen


Olive cultivation areas around the Mediterranean

Once finished with the market, we went to an Olive Museum to discover how Olive Oil and all its other products are made - very educational.  I am happy I could do this now and not when I was in school, otherwise the teacher would have made me write a report. Oh, dang, this is what I am doing now.
Ancient olive press
Olive product and gift packages


Old fashion olive picking ladders

Olive Oil

And after a long day, Selina sets a beautiful table with organic (bio) foods from the region
Thank you Patricia for always editing the blog and sharing some of your pictures.

Where do I start

This trip to France is turning out to be much more than we could have imaged. Selina is the perfect tour guide, taking us around to places we may never have found on our own. Some of the villages she has taken us to are Orange; Vaison-la-Romaine; Nyons; Venterol; Villedieu; Seguret; Sablet; Gigondas; and other ones on the way.
At first Vinsobres seemed to be just a beautiful little town in the middle of nowhere, and I could have never been more wrong. This area is steeped in Roman history, vast but small vineyards each domaine with it's own Cave, olive orchards and 'moulins' as well as nougat and fragrant fields of lavender (which give many local businesses their 'bleu' name), all connected with winding roads to the nearest hub of 'urban' activity. Market places abound in Provence Camargue. We visited one in Vaison and tomorrow go to one in Nyons.
The weather is fantastic, high 80s to low 90s, and everyone here is very friendly and understanding if I just pull a face of not understanding what they say.
Patricia and I have taken several hundred pictures over the last three days; here are just a few:
On a walk a la Cote du Rhone

Welcome to Vinsobres

Vinsobres

Vineyards

Olive orchard

Sweet porch

Selina's table

Best friends in Provence

Hugging my Selina

On Roman Bridge

Fountain at cafe

Buying olives in the Vaison market

Colorful pottery

Lots of garlic in the market

Apricots

Montelimar - home of nougat

In the Patisserie

Stacks of bread

Lunch at Au Natur'elle

Market women

Like mommy

Rough hewn Frenchman

Seguret in Provence

Vaison-la-Romaine

Old Roman Church

Roman ruins

Lavender, vineyards and wheat

Les Domaines around Vinsobres