Belleville

I haven’t spent that much time in the 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris, only really because I live on the opposite side of the city. I have read how it’s a rapidly changing area and is becoming more desirable than it once was ie. it’s not quite so dodgy.

I was fortunate enough to have a friend offer to show me around so I made the long journey to metro Jourdain where we wandered down to Belleville and then over to Pere Lachaise, Paris’s most famous cemetery.

It was a great relaxing walk through beautiful parks and little streets where local graffiti artists had left their mark. Definitely a place worth exploring if you want to get away from the touristy parts of the city.