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The best kind of takeaway store: at the Saturday market in Lyon one can find everything for the table - fresh and locally grown. The outdoor market in France is an event in itself. The wide variety of agricultural products are proudly offered by local farmers and producers. The people in the market - buyers and sellers - are as varied in colour and temperature as the food they have come for, and despite all the queuing, elbowing, and nudging everyone is courteous.

One wonders if the French invented the chalk and slate signs to inform their customers of the products and prices both on their market tables and in their cafes and restaurants. The calligraphy is a type of art in itself.

Gary Karlsen is a writer and amateur photographer. His rich and varied travels have included sailing the oceans of world on deep-sea freighters, circumnavigating North America by thumb, riding the rails across Canada, flying single engine airplanes into mountain lakes, traveling half the globe as a merchant mariner, and speaking at international conferences as an educator. He has travelled through careers in the construction industry, the teaching profession, and as a television producer. Karlsen continues to explore the world with his lifelong companion, Joanne and share it with others through his writing, his photography, and videos (See YouTube). He lives with his wife in British Columbia, Canada. See travel Blog, IN FRANCE WITH...