On our first weekend at Cavaillon we drove to a little town a short distance away, L’Isle sur la Sorgue. The Sorgue is the river which runs around the old town. The river water is transparent and clean and fast flowing with these beautiful old water wheels dotted along it. The water wheels were used in the olden days to provide power for the wool and silk industry. The old town is kind of a mini Venice.
L’Isle sur la Sorgue is famous for its antiquities and has 250 antique dealers which is amazing considering the population of the town is only 16000 but apparently people come from all over Europe to the markets here. The Brocante (antiques market) is held every Sunday and the markets go for miles up and down the main street and off into the little side streets. It’s unreal all those bits and pieces people are selling. I love looking at all that stuff. But there’s not much point buying anything, I don’t think it would fit in to our house in Australia.
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