Visiting Latin District of Paris/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Latin District of Paris/Carlos Pueblo

One day a Taiwanese lady traveler recommended me St. Michael Notre- Dame

for a visit and I checked my map. Sorbonne University is also inside the district

and not far from the church. Again I got off Chatelet station early on the next

morning to walk toward River Seine. The church is on an island split the river

into two while I walked across the St. Michel Avenue bridge to the east bank.

There is a St. Michel Church between two big streets which I did come back to

take some photos. In Paris there are either palaces or churches which represent

two estates, royalty and churches, which had caused the great 1789 revolution.

The vender opened their box buildings for a business of a new day, souvenirs

and magazines and on the other side of the street, restaurants and more permanent

stores for tourists. I was attracted by an unique street of flowers shops, bird feeds,

and bird shops.

In addition to the fresh cut flowers, the shops also carry the growing plants in a large

pot. I like their roses with all kinds of color and some other charming flowers. I was

not sure if some of them were peony or dahlia and asked my questions. Lady owners

were very patient to me for my broken Spanish. On the other side of the small street,

shoulder to shoulder, were birds stands with all kinds of bird feeds. These are Arabic

birds merchants with very special hobby indeed. I have seen people in Taiwan keep

all kinds of birds as hobby and treated as property. Of course, I also saw people catching

sparrows in the rice field after the harvest for grilled birds for food.

Across another bridge is the world known St. Michel Notre- Dame of Paris. People from

all over the world have gathered in the church square and line up waiting to enter to the

church. The front view of the church is so large which cannot be fit to my regular Canon

lens. I entered to the inside of the church, a red cardinal was performing a mass for the

Catholics. The church keeps several saints around the auditorium. You can purchase

candles to light on the front of the saints of your favorite, of course, you need to pay a

fee usually one Euro for a small candle. We Buddhist did the same thing by burning the

insane to our Buddha and Bodhisattva, saints like of Buddhism.

I went back to the east side of the river entering Luxembourg Park and French Senate.

This was a surprise to me along with the Pantheon due to my afternoon search of

Sorbonne campus of the University of Paris. I have been an admirer of the university

ever since my childhood era. Many Chinese scholars were educated here in early 20^th

century which lead the written Chinese language revolution.