Paris Plage and Fontainebleau-Barbizon

 

For a month, the right bank highway is closed to traffic. The city has installed sand, palm trees and 300 "transats" which are deck chairs. It has been an enormous sucess. 600,000 pepople came the first day.


Monday morning
looking east


and west

the sand


Tuesday we rented bikes and rode the 3km in each direction


My légionnaire

Growing interesting plants (Cité market)

Do it yourself

preparing stuffed dorade


Our corner café

Le Relais Charbon




Beaubourg

Concert in courtyard of Hotel Rohan

which is in the Marais


Marias painted wall

more than a wall
Place in front of St Sulpice. CAtherine DeNeuve lives in the apt with all the flowers
A head usch as this one is called a Manchon


Along with everything else in 1793 they introduced the metric system



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Rue Ciseaux was originally Rue Cizeaux and owed its name to a sing with 6 0's
Fontainebleau forest


Barbizon restaurant


interesting telephone pole

Millet's studio and our bikes

Millet had these

Here comes the maillot jaune!

typical F forest scene with enormous rocks

this rock is called tête de chien

Here's why