Malheureusement, as I got off at the Barbès Rochechouart station at 11am, I quickly discovered that I had mixed up my days and the market was on Saturday and not on Sunday. I had waiting all week for the market after getting such great food last week, that I was very disappointed! I returned home, motivated to find another one. I found that there was another one close to Metro Simplon - Ordener Market, still in the 18th but just a little further. Once I arrived, I discovered it to be very different from the Barbès Market. Most importantly, the prices were higher. Rather than 1 Euro for a kilo of strawberries, the cheapest I could find was 2 Euro for a kilo. Everything else was much more expensive and the location was different. The Barbès Market is located under the overpass of the Metro while this one was on either side of a boulevard. All in all, I prefer Barbès and will make sure to go next Saturday. The one good thing I found here was baby romaine hearts :)
Here are some photos from the Ordener Market:
Today, I spent the day with Gigi. We had such a nice time. She came over at 10am for coffee and then she had to go and meet with a friend at 11 - so we parted ways at Pigalle and met back up at my apartment mid afternoon. She was originally supposed to come with me to the Market, but I'm glad she didn't because I would have felt really bad that I messed up the date. We will go next weekend together and we will cook a Moroccan meal together with the food we buy. I can't wait. The weather was beautiful and we went out to grab "des sandwich" at the boulangerie down the street and walked up to Montmartre to sit in the park. It started to rain and we rushed back home. It was cold and damp and we decided to watch a movie. After spending a good half an hour trying to find movies online streamed that are dubbed in French so that she could understand - we found Coyote Ugly or "Coyote Girls". I usually cannot stand watching dubbed movies because I get frustrated that their mouths are not moving the same way as the voice, but I really didn't mind it this time. It was probably because I have seen the movie so many times. She had seen the trailer for the movie a while back, but never saw it. She really enjoyed it.
Gigi told me about this Moroccan comedian from here that is very big and we watched some youtube videos of his skits. This one is hilarious. He is making fun of French Canadians from Quebec -->
Its one week till my birthday!
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