Sunday is a big market day in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (43°55'10.5"N, 5°03'06.2"E) with a large section of antiques that interested Cindy so we headed up there for part of the day. From what we could tell, the entire old part of the town becomes a continuous open air market with fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, charcuterie, cheese, clothes, etc. etc. as well as the antiques. This town is not an island, despite its name, but rather branches of the Sorgue River go around and through the old town.
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After L'Isle we drove through part of the Luberon to check out some of the famous hill towns: Gordes, Roussillon, Lacoste and Bonnieux. These are some of the villages mentioned in Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.
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Gordes (43°54'29.1"N, 5°11'52.6"E)
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| Roussillon (43°54'05.7"N, 5°17'42.8"E) |
Near Gordes is an old village in which the buildings were constructed of dry stones, called bories. They were apparently in habited into the 19th century.
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| Village des Bories (43°54'26.3"N, 5°10'48.4"E) |
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