Markets

 

• Local vegetables, fresh fish, cooked and fresh meats, cheeses, honey, pollen and royal jelly, spices, sweets, doughnuts (beignets)

 

• Flowers, clothes (from modern cheap chic to the still obviously popular shapeless ‘housedresses’ and big warm knickers), leather goods, tools, knives, African art, sewing notions, handicrafts, chair mending, CDs and DVDs, boules, umbrellas….

 

• Radiators, furniture, table cloths, double glazing, rugs, lawn mowers, second hand jumble and antiques.

 

(markets in the big towns will have all of this and more. Smaller ones have local produce and some of the other stalls)

 

 

Every week

Covered market every Saturday in La Rochelle

Street market every Thursday and Saturday in Niort

Street market (including small livestock in front of the Halle) every Tuesday in Coulonges

 

 

 

Less often

2^nd Monday of each month in Moncoutant

4^th Monday of each month in La Chataigneraie

1^st Wednesday of each month in Mauzé

2^nd Sunday of each month in L’Absie (the one in September is three times the size of normal and includes lots of antiques/bric à brac)

 

 

 

Farmers’ Market

Every Sunday at Pescalis (6 miles away) Small but all focussed on the same thing,,, FOOD!!

Delicious local produce and some interesting speciality stalls… (Ostrich pâté?!)