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Breakfast in the countryside includes fancy cheeses, fresh yogurt, and aged ham
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The dazzling road through Vercors
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You can count 8 griffon vultures, in the tree tops waiting for the air to warm up
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Lyon street art
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French farmland via high-speed train, with poppies and camera reflection.
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A very fancy first Parisian dinner: salmon and asparagus pannacotta, cous cous with apricots, tomato-barley salad and onion tarte
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A very fancy train car
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Romani method for begging on trains: a woman drops these cards off near every passenger on the train car, and you can place a coin or bill on it (this makes the exchange more anonymous, and thus more appealing to Parisians)
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The administrative building of the Museum of Natural History
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First look: King vulture (what a beauty!)
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First look: Red-headed (formerly "Pondicherry") vulture -- with bright pink legs
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Children's poster competition from African wildlife organisation
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French lunch: Sole de meuniere with pommes. Soft where it should be soft and crunchy where it should be crunchy
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Another bee house. Fenced off so they bees can dwell unmolested.
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The gardens at the Museum of Natural History (which includes the Menagerie)
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Monument to G. Cuvier: a French naturalist and zoologist
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Paris streets. Same yet different
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One of the Museum of Natural History buildings, with alliums
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Patagonian Maras: mountain rabbits
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One of the original Menagerie enclosures
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Tile detail from an original zoo enclosure
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Griffon vulture
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Palm-nut vulture: she growled like a dog at her former researcher
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King vulture, preening
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Un menace plane. The expert in Paris says they should be upgraded from "least concern"
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The original "pheasant house" with lookout tower
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Detail of brick and tile on original pheasant house
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Tower two with pigeon nest
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Though this is an alligator, I can't help thinking about how the little French storyteller said "cro-co-deel"
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The former "big animal" enclosures
