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French rail terminals have device charging stations that require you to: 1) pedal for power, and 2) face – and maybe talk to – other riders
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We took a boat through the Paris Canal Saint-Martin today. Small crowds would gather on the footbridges to watch us lock through
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Paris flea market find: luminous 1849 scientific engravings from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle, 5€
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Paris's skeeviest sculpture is the leering faun & demure Cupid in Félix Salzar's 1868 "L'Amour Captif" ("Captive Love") @ Jardin des Plantes
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Êtes-vous total hipster? (Window display for artisanal shaving supplies, Rue Montorgueil)
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The Renault Quatre aka R4, which was the VW Beetle of France. In 1992 I graduated into a recession and spent much of the next year tramping around Europe in one of these chasing offbeat consulting gigs
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For most of the last 250 years, a tiny cannon in the Palais Royal garden has sounded noon as the sun's rays at zenith light its fuse through a collecting lens
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All that's left of the Hôtel-Raoul in Le Marais's Village Saint-Paul is this old portico fronting a drab apartment block http://cribier.net/Hotel-Raoul/index.html
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Rue de Bièvre, which paved over the course of the old Bièvre River on the Paris left bank
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The greatest thing I have done as a tourist in Paris is to attend the French national agriculture fair. The nation's relationship to food & countryside is on the broadest imaginable display
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The French appreciation for small pleasures, as seen in a bouquet of fresh tulips in a homeless encampment under one of the Seine bridges
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Paleo-coastal diet. 2 people ate this, with a side of frites. (at L'Écallier du Bistrot, photo by Dina)
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Paris museums have a charming way to stop you sitting on chairs that are historical artifacts, they put a teasel head on the cushion
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Among the George Sand memorabilia at the Musée de la Vie Romantique is the death cast of her lover Chopin's hand http://www.michael-lunts.co.uk/georgesand.htm
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One of those places juxtaposing strange beautiful dead things, and the means to make them dead. (Wolf skull; wolfhound collar)
