The little notebooks of Poufre Sétois: fishermen, for Stopover in Sète 2026, think of us… and of the traders!

Tous les lundis, il pose ses ventouses sur l’actualité de Sète et du bassin de Thau. MIDI LIBRE

Every Monday, he puts his suckers on the news from Sète and the Thau basin and today discusses the future scope of Escale à Sète 2026.

Don’t think that the Poufre hates tourists. Or that he would like to eat a few, as the Sète artist Nicolas Ripoll sings. He even loved walking alongside the tall sailing ships of Escale à Sète, Quai d’Alger and Quai Samary, among visitors from all over the region to photograph real sailors and fake pirates. But if he can only remember one thing from these five days of maritime traditions festival, it is how much he felt like a fish in water at the end of the day. Licciardi quay.

Sheltered by the Auction, amid the scent of grilled sardines and with lateen sails as a backdrop, your servant has discovered a very familiar little corner. An enclave "local color" which could well disappear, according to his reading of Midi Libre. Drawing an initial assessment of the eighth edition, the director of Escale à Sète spoke of an upcoming meeting with Sète fishermen, whose activity is impacted by the use of this space. If it were to disappear, it would certainly make Le Poufre, some of the festival-goers very sad, but also some local traders, very happy to have seen some 300   nbsp;000 visitors to Stopover in Sète 2024.

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