Market Day

Le Bugue Markets

By Max Crowther

(With apologies to every poet there ever was ...)

Pepito the prune man was rather sly

He Had his eye on Lady Di,

Bernard the basket vendor

Took a fancy to the lovely Glenda,

Andre sold pizza - pepperoni

And fell in love with dear Leonie.

Bill, Max and Bruce

Thought their women very loose!

What a laugh we had today at the markets. These are not the big, flashy, professional markets where people roll into town with refrigerated trucks, these are regional people who bring their products to town, and you buy what is fresh depending  upon the season. The streets were filled with vegetable stalls, fabulous bread, small goods, home preserves, local honeys and oils, biscuits, oysters, meats etc etc etc. we wandered, bought supplies for dinner, and posed with a few vendors from whom we had purchased our supplies. One introduced Di to his neighbour as his fiancé, another we had not bought anything from and had seen us taking a photograph gestured that he wanted his photo taken as well, we laughed so much ... Best shopping trip I've had.