The Market at Montreuil (Paris) France
Channel: slobomotion
Date: 2012-08-27

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This is a very old and famous market, always open-air, which runs year 'round every Saturday, Sunday and Monday.  Unpleasant in harsh weather and quite grungy, it tends to get passed over by visitors to Paris, which is a shame, as it's easily accessible via public transportation, and you simply won't find cheaper prices!  

I'd drive you nuts, because at the end of your visit here, if you showed me what you bought, most of it I could have helped you buy for a fraction of the cost had you just waited and let me take you over here!  Seriously, I am available as a private guide.  If you end up buying a lot, I can also help you send it back to where you live.

I fully understand people want posh atmosphere and creature comforts, but if you dress appropriately, have some drinking water and tissues on you and CASH, you would probably really enjoy this place and find some excellent bargains.  It isn't all second hand junk here.  There are also some quite nice, very low key but good quality places to eat and hang out in this vicinity, believe it or not.  This is quite "authentic Paris."  Just use your comment sense and blend in and you'll probably be fine.  

I've watched this area gentrify steadily since moving to France in 1994.  The old ateliers are now pricey lofts, and the working class atmosphere which still prevails is congenial and down to Earth.  The location is excellent.  Full of new office buildings and complexes, this area still has funky little bars, cafés, restaurants and old factories.  A new tramway line is just about to open here, also.  The tramways are great and your métro and bus tickets (which you should always buy in ten-packs for good savings -- avoid those tourist passes!) work on them.