Marché des Enfants Rouges

We got up bright and early to meet up with Flora's old uni mate from Melbourne. Sherly and Trav moved to the UK for work and were in Paris for the weekend - aahhh.. to be able to jet around Europe on weekends. What an amazing luxury!

This small market mainly sold fish, fruit and vegetables. Nothing was open yet - Parisians get up surprisingly late! The whole city seems to be asleep until about 11AM. To kill time (and to defrost our tootsies) we walked around the block and sought warm shelter in shops and supermarkets. Our lack of (non-existent) French vocabulary proved to be slightly challenging but our hand-gesturing game was strong.Read more