Paris - Parks and Gardens
I always admire people who wander around a city discovering something new all the time. Most of us have a tendency to take the same route and see the same things every time. Paris is a walking city. She can be crossed in two hours: north to south - east to west. I have done it often but that means no wandering - just getting to wherever I am going to. The pleasure of walks with Claude is that we wander. Yesterday it was the Marais - the centre of Paris and the heart of history. The latter is not my force as you know. Listening to the French listening to Claude I know how well my education is lacking in that area.
We started off right next to the Beaubourg centre (Pompidou on the map). The noise was deafening and yet just around the corner was a tiny garden which I have walked by so often - and never gone into. Anne-Frank’s garden inaugurated in 2007. Suddenly there is no noise and just a couple of people around. Reading or basking in the sun - the little there was of it. W