CHEAP WARES MAKE BARBÈS THE MOST VISITED
PART OF THE CITY
Illegal parking, pickpockets, crowds and a market whose exuberance comes from unbeatable prices:
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Discover Walks blog, source Diaspora Blogspot (vanished) |
Clearing trash after a market (notice the painting on the ground).
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Boulevard Barbès, the dividing line between Montmartre where you must almost be a plastic surgeon to live, and La Goutte d'Or / Barbès:
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| Adapted from a Google map |
- Vestiges of elegance and pleasure
Kata
34 rue Barbès
- A street for deals, such as recycled phones and jeans
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Jeans at the background, 25€
- People
I met these brothers by admiring the blue turban the younger is wearing, which he sold me. We corresponded for a time by email; he told me about his goats.
Struck by this young woman's braids I asked if I could photograph her, saying that it would contribute to the positive view of the neighborhood. She accepted in spite of the reticence you feel in the picture, an example of the graciousness one often meets here.
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During Ramadan culinary specialties line the streets, in preparation for feasts when the sun goes down:
- On boulevard de Rochechouart
- Rue de la Goutte d'Or (immediately behind the boulevard)
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Across from the métro at any time :
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After dark, conviviality...
(Rue de La Goutte d'Or)
...or the ambiance of a detective movie
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"Barbès don't panic!"
The mix, friendliness and vitality
make one think of New York,
and Parisians themselves
may be changing their minds:
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