Marché Bastille

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAU2psZfDpJN9-YUjpARDx8VgBHtW-Jl-XQfvVvGfpVNxnA-w6ZFO7fQrswILen0i_1mIztQjP7D4BUWaonkjpcWeG3nxcqUiiGe6JODehdVaverv8WVawPtpIJHoXT9l24Y56BcHwrH4/s1600/2011+April+14+DSC_0219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAU2psZfDpJN9-YUjpARDx8VgBHtW-Jl-XQfvVvGfpVNxnA-w6ZFO7fQrswILen0i_1mIztQjP7D4BUWaonkjpcWeG3nxcqUiiGe6JODehdVaverv8WVawPtpIJHoXT9l24Y56BcHwrH4/s1600/2011+April+14+DSC_0219.jpg" width="650" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Marché Bastille</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Seen here on a market day (Thursdays and Sundays), you can buy almost anything from produce, seafood, bread, flowers, cheese, and other food items to household goods.  However, on Saturdays, this sprawling area is transformed into a street market of "art and creation," an opportunity to explore, to buy, and to talk with the artists.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The street art and fine craft markets around the world allow a visitor (tourist?) to take home a sketch or a post-card sized painting for a reasonable amount.  My collection ranges from Punta Arenas to Prague and many places in between.  Each <i>petit quelque chose</i> provides a more permanent memory of a city/country than a souvenir stand could ever offer.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Marché Bastille</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Marché de la Création Paris-Bastille</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Boulevard Richard Lenoir</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75011, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Marché Bastille

Marché Bastille Seen here on a market day (Thursdays and Sundays), you can buy almost anything from produce, seafood, bread, flowers, cheese...

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