There are dozens of flea markets of all sizes in the greater Paris area, and the largest one is naturally the Saint-Tuan flea market that Yang Jing went to the day before yesterday; But the cheapest flea market is the Arrig market, located west of central Paris; But if you want to say which market is the most exquisite and the most popular for tourists, it is undoubtedly the Wangfu flea market that Yang Jing will go to today.
Located in the 14th arrondissement south of Paris, the Vaufer flea market is geographically located across the city center from the Saint-Touen flea market to the south and north.
Yang Jing learned from the proprietress of the hotel yesterday that the market is small, only two blocks away, and it is only open on Saturdays and Sundays.
The market mainly deals in antique furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, everyday hardware from the fifties and sixties, jewelry, antique cameras, gramophones, books, old documents, coins, second-hand watches, and of course, there are many modern second-hand items.
Yang Jing came to the market at eight o'clock in the morning, and at eight o'clock in October in Paris, it was already dark.
Sure enough, this market is very small, at least compared to the flea markets that Yang Jing has been to, the Wangfu flea market is really small.
Two more than 100-meter-long "L" shaped streets became the main body of the market.
However, although the market is not big, there are a lot of people, and the most important thing is that this market does not have any shops, it is a complete open-air market.
At most, those stall owners only support one shed, and more stall owners don't even support the shed, so they operate in the open air.
In fact, this model is the real flea market, like the flea markets that Yang Jing has been to before, whether it is the Saint-Tuan market or the Alfie market, they have all changed their taste.
A real flea market is one of these open-air markets!
And what made Yang Jing most happy was that he stood outside the market for more than ten minutes, and he didn't see a sneaky guy.
There may be thieves here, but there are definitely not as many as the Saint-Tuan market, so it's no wonder that the Vaufer flea market is known as the safest flea market in the whole of Greater Paris.
Without those annoying guys, such a market is only interesting to visit, and customers dare to pay for things without any scruples.
No one wants to dig out their wallet under the gaze of a thief!
In fact, thieves don't really have much room to survive at the Wangfu flea market.
It's not so much that there are police here, it's that everyone here is police.
The Vendford flea market also has a long history, having appeared at the end of the 19th century, more than 130 years ago.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, there were many thieves here, which seriously affected the tourists here.
So one day in the 90s of the last century, a local stall owner who had been operating in the market for a long time spontaneously organized more than a dozen stall owners to form an "anti-theft alliance", whose main responsibility was to expel those thieves who disrupted the order of the market from the market.
Later, more and more stall owners took the initiative to join this alliance, and in the new century, almost all the stall owners in the entire market joined this alliance.
Once a thief is found in the market, all the stall owners will take the initiative to expel the thief.
If the thieves continue to run rampant, then they will soon find out that their disaster has come.
No matter how rampant the thieves are, when facing a crowd of 200 stall owners, they have to obediently get out, if they dare not get out, then they will immediately understand what is called "the vast sea of people's war"!
Over time, the thieves in Paris knew that the Vaufer flea market was not easy to mix, at least not where they mingled, so the thieves in Paris basically did not come here to commit crimes.
Of course, there may be one or two thieves from out of town once in a while, but that doesn't happen after all.
If these unknown thieves are lucky enough, they may be able to make a little money by working for half a day.
But if they're unlucky, they'll end up with it In contrast, the open-air market where the stallholders are more united because there are no walls, and the Saint-Tuan flea market may be better, but there is a real lack of the neighborly harmony and mutual aid.
Yang Jing walked into the market with more and more people, and suddenly, the familiar noise filled his ears.
Yang Jing was even able to hear a lot of voices from the motherland.
In recent years, with the rapid growth of China's economic strength, tourists from China have become the main source of tourists in Europe and the United States.
Because of its good security, Wangfu Flea Market has long had an excellent reputation among Chinese tourists.
Almost more than half of the Chinese tourists who visit Paris choose to pick out a day to visit the Wangfu flea market.
Because of the cognitive relationship, the development of the flea market in China is not very prosperous, and even if there is, most of them are flea markets spontaneously formed by adults and children to serve children, plus some college flea markets.
The main way of doing business in that market is also barter, and most of them are children's toys, books, second-hand books, computers and other things that college students can't take with them after graduation.
However, the flea market in Europe and the United States is different, the flea market here is a real flea market, and there is almost no such market in China, so domestic tourists are very rare in this flea market.
Wangfu flea market is not big, but there are a lot of people, and it is definitely not an exaggeration to describe it as shoulder to shoulder.
Yang Jing swayed slowly with the flow of people, and when he saw something good, he stopped to take a look or touch it.
Along the way, Yang Jing has seen furniture with a history of more than 200 years, of course, those furniture are not furniture from the aristocracy or the royal family, most of these furniture are ordinary people's own accumulated furniture, so the price is not very high, very close to the people.
Yang Jing also saw old objects such as gramophones, vinyl records, second-hand books, and cameras with a history of several decades, most of which came from ordinary people's homes, and were not considered high-quality products, so the prices were not expensive.
Yang Jing saw with his own eyes that a young man who seemed to be an international student bought six second-hand books for only five euros Of course, if you want to do this, you must at least practice the "bargaining method" to the point of entering the house, and only if you stun the stall owner, you will have the opportunity to take what you want at a low price.
Such a market is full of vitality, and this kind of market is what Yang Jing likes.
Slowly, Yang Jing walked to the middle of the market, where a stall selling second-hand books caught his eye. ps: Bow and thank "Feng Xiaojie" for the 600 tip, and "Riding the Turtle to Heaven" for the 100 tip!