Gift ideas Charente-Maritime

The name of this press is inseparable from the nearby ocean. No mutiny here but a vast collection of regional or national postcards and daily newspapers. The Bounty is also a great number of accessories to relax and enjoy the beach. Colorful balloons, toys for children (landing, boats and inevitable shovels and buckets). Parents will have every opportunity to watch their children quietly installed on mats of beaches or for the most sports of them to play snowshoes with them. New now, deposit your cartridges and toners of all marks for filling

Today, we've decided to treat ourselves to a moment to ourselves! Head for the city center and this pretty boutique, just a stone's throw from the market. As you enter, you'll be charmed by the many cosmetic products and scents that envelop you. Marseille soap made in Provence (cube, slice or liquid), donkey milk cream, goat's milk body balm, essential oils... there's something for everyone! An ideal place for gift ideas.

This soap factory, located in the heart of the Ile de Ré, is easy to get to thanks to its roadside parking. Just step inside and you'll be charmed by the enchanting scents and beautifully decorated store. This is your chance to stock up on beauty products made from donkey's milk. Rich in vitamins and enriched with shea butter, the soaps are sold plain or scented, in solid or liquid form. You'll also find care and massage oils.

Like the fleur de sel, soap is one of the emblematic products of the island of Ré. During the visit of the Baleines lighthouse, you can easily go to this soap factory. The store is recognizable by its stuffed donkey, but it is inside that you will find all the secrets of soap making. Visit the soap factory every Monday and Tuesday morning (from April to September). You can find the famous organic donkey milk soap.

This store is one of the places to go if you're looking for a gift idea. It's true that the place lends itself ideally to a stroll, with its warm atmosphere and team of enthusiasts always ready to advise. There's something for everyone. Parents will find early-learning toys (cuddly toys, bath toys) as well as outdoor games that allow our little ones to enjoy nature to the full! Older children can treat themselves to a moment of well-being with essential oils, teas...

This is one of the stores that you must visit! It is dedicated to the donkey, this animal that is well known by the people of Rétais and that still walks young and old. While strolling around, you will see a stuffed animal that indicates the entrance of the shop. We appreciate the warm welcome and the perfumes that make you want to buy one of the soaps. The quality is not lacking, it must be said that the family business has been making organic donkey milk soaps for 20 years.

There are original objects and full of gift ideas installed in a real charentaise house: house plates, balancier toys, nice dishes and, because we are at sea, a large "marine carterie" radius. Panama also distributes local products (including the large salt from Madame, which is not everywhere) and a line of care for the salt-based body of the island of Ré (the Bio-Salines range).

How to stay on the Island without reporting a souvenir? Lighthouses, boats, shells, rollers, photo frames, crockery… in blue and white necessarily. And, for the récalcitrants, there are also chic box pens, class lighters and porte, reduced bike models, beautiful books…

Loix has a particular link with the one that is still called the white gold. If you wish to flavour your dishes with fleur de sel, you can go to this store which works only with salt from the island of Ré. Several stores are located in the villages of Ré, including the one in Ars, which manufactures salt-based food products and cosmetics based on sau-fine (concentrated seawater enriched and harvested in the summer in the salt marshes): scrubs, anti-wrinkle creams... The products are available for sale online.

This boutique is, to say the least, original. Present in Niort and La Rochelle, Linéa has been sharing its passion for unusual objects for 10 years. The La Rochelle-based store continues to attract locals eager to contemplate the latest in design. As soon as you enter, you'll be seduced by this 100 m² space reserved for all those looking for original, playful and colorful products in a wide range of fields: home, decoration, lifestyle, kids... Just a few examples? Let's go to the kitchen, a place for the whole family to share: you'll be surprised to find a spoon in the shape of a squirrel, an origami juicer or crocodile tongs. Bored at work or looking for an original gift for a colleague? Why not try the Owl eyeglass holder or the ladybug stapler? With Linéa, you're sure to find an original gift!

Whether you're at the end of the day or rather «diaper» this tobacco office of the Port is made for You. Located near the Old Port and open until midnight, it is a convenient side for all inhabitants but also for tourists in walking. No need to watch your watch, you know that the establishment is open at any time. That it is good to get up early and come and pick up its regional daily before enjoying a coffee! Located opposite Valin square and just steps from the Big Clock, this store is easily accessible and will greatly facilitate the lives of many of you.

The café offers a pick-up service. Nearby, you'll also find V AND B BEAULIEU, COLOMBUS CAFÉ and HANGAR 8.

This place is a new place to meet André, a husband of Martine who owns the library, which is only a few dozen metres away. In his charming workshop, which is still open as a welcome sign, André has been working for 15 years to manufacture his books like a goldsmith. His specialty: art of the th century, poetry and classical literature and its clients the major museums and cultural centres of France. If you take the small rue des Templar, it will offer you to acquire for the very modest sum of 10 or 20 euros (depending on the format) magnificent reproductions of old posters… and rare: views of La Rochelle and its surroundings, maps and plans, botanical or zoologiques boards with the faithful colours and printed on vergé paper of beautiful quality. But André is also an artist at his time and offers beautiful photos of the region he calls "aqua-real", printed of course in the best way. This is a very original idea of remembrance or gift.

2017 is the time of change for this store which is always placed at the top of a venelle from the port. Mr. and Mrs. Petit left but the store couldn't shut up! Florence decided to resume it and to pursue the same unique concept: offer both design and contemporary objects all for budgets and in all fields (watchmaking, art of the table, decoration…) and always some sweets side groceries with the Brothers Wedding teas.

Located at the end of Saint-Yon Street, the Chives is a tobacco café. The concept is interesting, everyone can buy cigarettes, their newspapers, but the small terrace and the benches inside offer all the pleasure of sipping a coffee before going to the market. Furthermore, not the trouble to park your bicycle very far, places are at your disposal right in front of the hotel.

Located in the rue Albert 1 ^er, Colbert is a press-presse offering a traditional but nevertheless less supplied, magazine radius and daily press. There is also a small bookstore and fresh drinks. What's better than buying a newspaper and a can to play peacefully in the Natural History Museum's park. Cigarette buffs are also welcome. Please note that this presse is a partner of the AMAP (Association for the Maintenance of Agricultural Agriculture). Those who have committed to buying fruits and vegetables come here to pick up their shopping cart on Thursday afternoons. 

Nathalie Landeau has fallen under the charm of the fouta, this colourful cotton canvas which serves as a towel in oriental baths. Since then, she has been importing these traditional paintings that she makes from her plans by a craftsman on a former loom. Nathalie brings his personal touch to the ancestral models by selecting a variety of colours, with brightly colored pastel tones. There are a little more than models in many soft of blue, green, yellow, pink… Some models are also scratched, tree or lights. In addition to the traditional fouta (1 m x 2 m), Nathalie created models of various dimensions (2 m x 2 m, 2 m x 3 m, etc.) to be able to adapt them in plaid, bed jetty or sofa, tablecloths, etc. Four different tissages are proposed, as well as a version "of luxury", of silk and linen.

The island of Ré lends itself to strolling, offering an alternation of landscapes between beaches and vineyards. In the heart of the villages with white houses, small stores are hidden, highlighting local products. This is the case of this soap factory, a family business that has been making organic donkey milk soaps and cosmetics for 20 years. The welcome is pleasant, the advice interesting allowing to find the product of his choice among a very wide range of soaps.

This store is located in the heart of the aquarium. To enter is to discover a host of products with a common theme: the ocean. Resulting from a collaboration with local designers, they are all designed in La Rochelle by a company driven by ecological values such as the protection of the oceans and sustainable development. The place is ideal to find gift ideas or simply to treat yourself with jewelry, clothes, stuffed animals, toys...

You can find at the Totem, in addition to a good carterie radius, gifts and souvenirs such as beautiful pipes, decorative plates, Waterman and Dupont pens, Enzo Varini lighters, Laguiole knives, champagne buckets, watches, various cards of cards, toys and even time newspapers. Finally, for the sake of cigar lovers, there is a carefully tempered cellar to keep the chair bars, among others, from Cuba in their pretty boxes.