Quite a way to go to a market, but we did enjoy our excursion today.

Draguignan is the largest town we have visited in this area so far. It has almost 40,000 inhabitants. It too is a three flower 🌹 town, but not a patch on Seillans as far as we are concerned.

It was a very wiggly road trip but Mick got to see some pretty scenery. Not me. I was watching the road too closely.

We had left early so we could hopefully find a park. Which we did. And not too far from the car we spotted this welcome sign showing us the way to the Place du Marché.

The markets are held each Saturday in the old part of the town which is only suitable for pedestrians.

But in order to get there we had to walk down this street where pedestrians are protected by those bollards.

It was not too busy at around 9 am, but by the time we left it was packed. Mick spotted some fresh fruit he wanted to buy early in our wanderings.

Tomatoes are in season at the moment. Some stalls were obviously more popular than others. People were lined up to be served at some while others were totally empty.

Mick asked me to take a photo of how they cook the chickens. Can you see all those tiny potatoes on the bottom layer getting dripped on from the cooking birds above?

We resisted the temptation but stopped for a coffee at the cafe in the middle of the market square. It was very busy but also very efficient. We were served as soon as we found a table and my ordering of our coffees in French is improving.

I took a sneaky shot of these two French woman enjoying a glass of rosé for their morning tea.

Quite a few people were doing the same thing – enjoying either a rosé or a small beer at 10am. If only I wasn’t driving!

Draguignan gets it name for “dragon”. Apparently a saint/bishop slayed a dragon in the area and saved lots of people. The only dragons we spotted were as statues or as murals.

I asked Mick to get a photo of me under one of the old city gates, which he did. But, he could not resist this.

So, what did we buy?

Besides tomatoes and baguettes I bought some battered zucchini flowers. They were sold as 10 for €6.90, but I actually got 17. Bargain, and yummy once we re-heated them.

But, I got stung at the artisan biscuit stall.

We had decided to buy 200g of almond biscuits which should have cost around €6, instead the stall holder talked us into buying a selection of the biscuits. No price was displayed. After I had taken the biscuits she advised me they cost €10.30. Mick counted the biscuits later. There were 17 which had them work out at almost $1AUD each. Another reminder to always check before agreeing to buy.

Mick would have much preferred 17 croissants.

Finally, one colourful stall that caught our eyes was this one.

The small bulldog statue sitting on the white table was for sale for €240. We didn’t stop for too long there. No room in our luggage anyway.

We plan to visit Le Muy tomorrow.

No prizes for guessing why.