Paris has the biggest flea market in the world, Les Puces de Saint-Ouen Market (puce is French for “flea”) and sprawls over numerous blocks and into alleyways and covered halls that are filled with a variety of goods.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that you can spend an entire day roaming the stalls and still not cover the whole market.  To help you invasion the atmosphere, it reminds me of outdoor and indoor storage facilities with small garages, filled with items ranging from the very large and expensive (some stalls resemble high-end antique shops with prices to match) to the tiny and cheap.

A couple weeks ago Allison and I took the underground metro out to the 18th arrondissement to the flea market.  If you’re in Paris and want to go, make sure to use Oh Happy Day’s blog post on how to get there to find your way there.  This post of was helpful in getting us there and making sure we understood how the flea market was set up!  It isn’t just one big flea market but more like several small flea markets in the same area that are all connected.