very evocative. Though these may not directly transform
into a peaceful place free from the hustle-and-buzzle, but
come on, this is totally Paris.
2. Walk straight through a food market Among more than
1,200 markets in Paris there are 90 food markets. There
are various kinds of them: open-air neighborhood
markets, street markets (which are pedestrian walk-ways
devoted to markets), covered markets and so on. You can
taste great foods and often enjoy fun entertainment with
musicians. But one of the best reasons to go to the market
is cultural immersion.
One can temporarily be a parisian just by walking around
the streets and to go shopping in the markets, because
they are not set up for tourists (like a Disney version of
market), they are authentic places where people have
been shopping for literally hundreds of years, thus they
have become the rhythms of the neighborhood. One tip is
to arrive at the market as early as possible as most of
them will not appear after around 2pm. I just love to know
more about this city to which we can go back for the rest
of our lives.
And here I recommend the book "How Paris Became
Paris" by Joan DeJean, which has given me a little better
understanding of the city that the author clearly knows
and loves well.
George is a student at EdUHK
studying Psychology with a
minor in French. He serves as
one of the Student
Ambassadors in the ASLLC.
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