My friend Valerie makes hand-printed tea towels - dish towels, torchons - from vintage sheets. She also makes aprons, cushion covers, and uses fabric remnants to make lovely scarves.
She's having a sale on December 13th, Sunday, at 14.00 (2 pm)
It's at her house in Villetritouls - which is about 30 minutes south of Carcassonne in The Corbieres.
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It's a tiny village. Park at the end of the village by the old church, walk down the road on the north side. Valerie is on the left, past the little open space and the barn. She'll have a sign, or ribbons on the door, or something.
For more information you can call her at 0468 78 11 45 or email her at valerie@shop-vecu.com.
We're in the process of setting up an etsy shop - vecu.
By Sam Mooney
12th October 2009
L'Odalisque is a relatively new restaurant in Limoux. It opened in April of this year and in a fairly unlikely situation. It's in Rue des Cordeliers, a narrow street just behind the Place de la République.
There are three separate dining areas: the first small room which seats about 20 people, a larger, more formal room for up to 25 and a cellar which can take up to 40 people.
It's all been beautifully renovated with exposed stone walls and original features but the tableware and furnishings are strikingly modern.
There is a three-course weekday lunchtime menu at 15 euros and the evening menus range from four courses at 26 euros through to a gastronomic menu at 50 euros.
I've only been once so far but it was superb - and everyone else I've come across who's been has thought so too!
4th June 2009
There are some very fashionable markets around here - Mirepoix and Limoux, for example - where you buy a few vegetables but the main point is to meet friends in a café on the square for a coffee. And there's nothing wrong with that.
But Bram market seems more old-style French. The object of the exercise is to stock up for the week with the freshest of produce - of which there is an abundance - and, if you bump into friends along the way, so much the better.
And the best coffee I've ever drunk comes from a lovely lady who has a van she brings every week. (She also does Castelnaudary market on Monday mornings.) She opens up at some unearthly hour of the morning and you can smell her coffee all around the market.
She opens the side of the van and puts some stools outside and it's very difficult to walk past without stopping to buy. She also has a wide range of coffees she'll grind up freshly for you.
Not sure why I've just blogged this. I certainly don't want to attract any more people to Bram market!
