A visit to the St Ouen Flea market - Sept 22

On Sunday morning we went off to the flea market in St Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris. It is huge - actually a set of about 14 of them; there's been something there for about 200 years. To me it wassort of going to a museum without signs or captions. We didn't buy anything - since we already have too much stuff.

I did look carefully through a set of old automobile manuals looking for one for a Simca Cinq. I had a 1947 Simca Cinq (actually a French assembled version of the Fiat 500 affectionally called the topolino - little mouse - or Mickey Mouse car). But they had none although there were others of similar vintage.


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Sacré-Coeur

After lunch at the flea market (it was new food, not antique) we went off to see Sacré-Coeur. It is a new Basilica started in the 1880's with much politics about the land and the funding and didn't get finished until 1914 and was dedicated in 1919 after the war was over. It's on a nice site on a hill overlooking much of Paris. We didn't go inside since it was Sunday and there were masses going on. There were good size crowds there. And outside we all watched an acrobatic performance - two videos below.

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