Stop the car!

I think I’ve mentioned before that if Brian wants to take a photo, I’m quite used to stopping the car quickly, and safely, but he’s also very good at stopping if we notice a market or brocante. We can never just drive by.

We hadn’t seen any signs for this market at all, it was completely unexpected, which is odd as usually they put handwritten signs up along the side of the road. But as soon as I saw the little stalls gathered around the church, I exclaimed “You need to stop the car” he was then turning us into a narrow side street, and slotting into a nicely positioned parking spot. What we hadn’t realised was that actually there was a car park just around the corner, but our spot was better.

We were kind of in the middle of nowhere, or so it seemed, so we didn’t expect much from our sudden artisan market, just a collection of local amateur craft enthusiasts perhaps.

But we were soon corrected, as the market was brimming with artisan pottery. I don’t remember seeing so much in one place before, it was quite amazing.

There was even a chap selling the most gorgeous raku work, but at €350 a vase it was a bit steep for us. What did catch my eye though was a stall selling metalwork flowers and butterflies.

Along with the borders I’m creating in the garden I’d like some unexpected little ‘discovered things’ to come across as you wander around the garden, and these were just what I was after, so I bought a few.

There was tons more to see, but we also had a walk to start, so we had to pull ourselves away.