a few more photos

Here's some more photos of our walk through the 18eme and the 20eme arrondissements...you still find some old one-family Parisien homes here, mixed with new, modern apartment buildings. Parc de Belleville is awesome, and if you climb all the stairs to the top, you have an aerial view of Paris...plus a great view of all the lush landscaping on the levels of the park itself.

I didn't take any photos of it, but we walked through what seemed to be an African squatters' area, with a huge, rundown apartment building filled with African men, clothes hanging off all the balconies, and corn on the cob -- with the corn eaten off of it -- thrown everywhere on the ground.

This graffiti artist was in a tiny alleyway in the lower part of Belleville, not far from the Belleville metro stop. It looked like it had also been a squatters' area but was starting to get renovated, as was the area at the other end of the block which had been Tunisian, maybe....? But all the shops looked closed and there was construction equipment everywhere.