Our trip through France is almost impossible to sum up but the title seems to try. France had a huge legacy of places of history of various kinds - castles for want of a word - and also, as we found when we went to Omaha Beach and the American War Cemetery,they remember and honour their past, even if the maintenance is getting a bit much in some areas.Tagging and cigarette butts abound everywhere and noone seems to care much.
5am is a brutal time to wake up - but a useful time to refelect on what we have been doing. Paris is a city I have read much about all my life so to see it in actuality was a really interseting experience.It is, in the Haussmann section of the central city, a very beautiful place. Our first encounter in the Charles Michel area was a kind of composite of may elemtns, The carousels which appear on many street corners;the regularly planted and clipped rows of military-like trees; the cafes and bistrots with chairs facing outwards to see what is going on;the traffis and the pedestrians which seem to co-exist somehow.Seeing Paris in the autumn for the first time makes me want to return in the spring.
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