L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Episode 400
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Are you thinking of visiting L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Fontaine de Vaucluse? Listen to this episode to understand what it'll be like and make your plans!
Table of Contents for this Episode
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:00:48] Today on the Podcast
- [00:03:58] 400th episode of the Join Us in France Travel Podcast
- [00:04:26] Celebrating 400 episodes!
- [00:05:09] What information could change from old episodes?
- [00:05:41] Museum Pass no longer a good deal
- [00:06:31] Tickets no longer available very far in advance
- [00:07:00] Listen to each episode’s travel update for current info
- [00:07:36] Why I started the podcast?
- [00:08:22] Do we run out of subjects?
- [00:08:46] How do we usually choose our topics?
- [00:11:18] L’Isle sur la Sorgue
- [00:11:37] What is Brocante?
- [00:12:29] The market in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
- [00:13:52] International Brocante
- [00:14:43] The town
- [00:15:38] The shops and restaurants
- [00:16:05] Other Brocantes in the world
- [00:16:55] What do they sell in the markets?
- [00:17:24] Professionals buy and sell here
- [00:20:14] How long should you spend there?
- [00:20:39] Parking might be hard
- [00:21:31] Remember where you parked!
- [00:22:06] Take a break around noon
- [00:23:32] It’s not a ‘pretty’ town
- [00:25:24] The foods
- [00:27:03] Special events
- [00:27:07] Nocturnal festival
- [00:27:37] Floating market
- [00:28:09] Monthly arts and crafts festival
- [00:32:03] Anywhere you want to go – get there early!
- [00:33:51] Reserve a place for lunch if you can
- [00:37:25] Fountaine de Vaucluse
- [00:38:14] The River Sorgue
- [00:39:22] Three attractions
- [00:40:42] The Poet Petrarch
- [00:43:43] The castle ruins
- [00:44:27] A magical place
- [00:48:12] Close to Cavaillon
- [00:48:59] Parking in Fountaine
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The This is, join us in France, episode 400. |
| 0:15.0 | 400, can you say it with me? |
| 0:22.0 | 4. BOUTROUS. BOUTROUS. Can you say it with me? Kato Saint. |
| 0:24.0 | Bonsieur, I'm Annie Sergeant, and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:30.0 | Everyday life in France, great places to visit in France, French culture, history, gastronomy. |
| 0:37.0 | But this week there won't be any news related to travel to France because I'm on vacation, and so I'm pre-recording this and I cannot read into the future. |
| 0:47.0 | Today I bring you a conversation with my friend Elise Riven of Toulouse guided walks about |
| 0:55.0 | Lille on the Sorgh and Fontaine de Vauclues, beautiful places in Provence where she was |
| 1:01.0 | recently and she has great tips for you with a bit of history as well because it's |
| 1:05.9 | important to understand how the places that we love came to be. This is a 400th episode and |
| 1:12.2 | Elis and I discuss it at the start of our conversation, but I can never say it enough |
| 1:17.4 | This podcast would not exist without the support of all the listeners who love the podcast and have made it possible for me to turn my hobby into my profession. |
| 1:27.8 | I love it. It's so wonderful spending my days thinking about ways to help you have wonderful trips to the country that I love through |
| 1:36.3 | the itinerary service, the Voicemap tours, and I love chatting with my patrons as well. |
| 1:42.6 | They are wonderful people. |
| 1:44.4 | Perhaps I'll get a few more Patreon's reward |
| 1:47.8 | ready in between visits to the beach on my vacation. |
| 1:50.9 | I'm certainly hoping to. And if you'd like to avail yourself of my products and services |
| 1:57.2 | because I don't advertise on this podcast I've been asked to add ads to the podcast and I have resisted because I'd rather sell my own |
| 2:08.0 | services and I have quite a few right now you can see them at my boutique. |
| 2:12.8 | Join us in France.com for slash boutique where you can see my cookbook. |
| 2:17.2 | I haven't mentioned my cookbook in a while, but if you enjoy cooking and want to try |
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