We visited Rungis!

January 10, 2011 by Anne & Nancy
Filed under Fête Notes

What’s Rungis? It’s the main wholesale market of Paris, and the largest in the world. It’s a giant complex that was built up to replace Les Halles in central Paris. And we got to visit it!

We tagged along with our darling florist Karine to visit the floral pavilion and check out the enormous wholesale decoration warehouses. And eat a turkey-mayo on baguette sandwich at 7:30am.

Here’s a recap of our early morning visit:

4:55am: The alarm goes off. It’s way. too. early.
5:10am: Is it too early for leftover galette des rois? Stomach seems to think yes.

5:24am: In the car. It’s very, very quiet.
5:42am: After a bit of meandering around the town of Rungis, we arrive at the market of Rungis!

6:08am: Making the rounds with Karine our florist, shopping to stock her boutique. It’s less busy than we would have thought. We’re informed that we’re “late”, meaning that there are crazy people that show up even earlier than 5:30-6 o’clock in the morning.

6:45am: Orange pressée, café crème and gossip at the flower pavilion café.

7:17am: Turkey-mayo on baguette to go.
7:27am: Pick up the day’s purchases and load up the camion.
7:30am: The sandwich is calling…
7:45am: A spin around the decoration stores. There’s a lot of cool stuff we could use for our weddings!