Marseille Shopping

Nathalie Rouveyrol and her husband created this magnificent shop of SPECIALITIES.....

You can see, taste and buy many different kind of olive oil (huil = oil) with or without special herbs and other plants/flowers.

You can taste the different oils on a little piece of bread.
When you have made your choice the oil can be put in a bottle for you: fresh as fresh can be.....

Amazing, amazing what they have on offer for us, who find there shop: specialities such as TAPENADES, HONEY, LAVENDER products, soap, bath gels and oh, so much more......you will need some time to take it all in and to decide what to buy......l'embarras du choix ici.......which means that it is difficult to make your choice!

The shop is a feast to visit....

There are 2 addresses where they sell their products:

2, Place Daviel - 13002 Marseille (photograph)
tel. 33(0)4 91 90 05 55
open: daily 10AM - 1PM and 2PM - 7PM

and

59, rue d'Italie, 13100 AIX-EN-PROVENCE
tel. 33(0)4 42 38 71 77

open: Mondays through Saturdays 9.30AM - 1.30 PM and 2.30PM - 7.30PM

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What to buy: We were lucky to more or less stumble across a huge brocante just in front of the stadium. It was such a delight to look at the goodies that people offered: from clothes to antiques, from toys to musical instruments! Lots of copper, too!

Pier Foucou, Bruno Manant and their helpers make LES MACARONS FONDANTS LEOPOLD and also the very sought after NAVETTES MARSEILLAISES, daily, at their bakery which is connected with the Boutique.

These specialities of this FINEST BAKERY are sooooo delicious that I bought some (!) to take home with me....

They also sell an excellent collection of FOIE GRAS and wines and also sell magnificent TEAS....

Of course you can taste this all in their "salon" on the first floor......which I can recommend to you!!

In the 6th arrondissement where we stayed there were a lot of little shops to buy food and drinks. They were open even on holidays and Sundays and many times until late in the evening. You could get almost everything there, but of course, prices in these small places are usually a little higher! But it is soooooooo convenient!

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This is a small factory of boule/pétanque balls. Each and every ball is hand-made, so they are really special! We got a small tour of the factory and then bought some balls there.

What to pay: prices are 80 € up for a set of 3 balls

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Here you can buy coffee as well as drink coffee.

We stopped for a short coffee break. The coffee was fanstatic delicious and that's why we asked which typ of the many different were served and bought two packs.

It was a mixture from mokka and arrabica coffee. The coffee beans were milled freshly and the smell was amazing!

The torréfation exists since 1932.

Down the Old Port, past the Theatre La Criee, there are several shops that sell exclusively things to do with ships and the sea. Here is where you can get that sailor's wheel you have always wanted, or art-deco posters of the old shipping companies, or even the famous mariners pullover, the blue and white striped hoops made fanous by Marseillais sailors (and so loved by Picasso).

Do your shopping on rue St. Ferreol, for here is where the best magasins are to be found. I personally love Celio and Celio Sport - i bought my nice orange jumper here. This is where all the major clothes stores are to be found, as wellas Virgin Megastore. It is semi-pedestrianised, and runs off of La Canebiere.