nice parks and grass bits all over Paris, including les Champs de Mars spreading from the Eiffel Tower. People resting all over.
unfortunately, these soldiers too. Though, probably a better job patrolling around such a place than a set of barracks or other boring sites....
les Champs de Mars. Skin cancers on the prowl but good viewing and for the morale...
nice way to avoid the traffic jams...
and a bicycle too of course. Paris has set public bikes all over the place. You take one here, drop it there. One little flaw with this way is that lazy people leave the bikes down any hill and it is harder to find an available bike on top of Montmartre Hill for instance. Quite a success as far as I could see. Enemies of the system are of course motorists but they complain for whatever reasons that reduce their "right of way" , their "king of the road" status anyway. Other people who affirm that cycling in a city is dangerous. True 2 dead cyclists so far in Paris. One due to reckless riding, so what to do? And if anything dangerous should suppressed as these people want to do with these bikes, what about cars...? Or horses, airplanes and trains and boats? And I bet they smoke anyway. So just shut up guys...
I must say I didn't mind too much going shopping in these conditions. Those big department stores like Samaritaine here are pieces of museums, as the rest of the city, I know I've said that already, but touring inside or waiting outside such a shop half an hour is then no problem for me. Well one still has to carry the goodies of of course...girls say it is a form of sport to convince their guys...Samaritaine: from the Good Samaritan, yeah sure, try to get in there and get things without money, specially in the big names areas like Dior, Chanel...
French people and their cigarettes....
antiques...
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