Yes, I know,
I should get back to my trip to the south of France, but…
This is a report from
yesterday. I went to the Eiffel Tower to see my son arrive among the 25,000
others, participating in the yearly race “20 km de Paris” (12.4 miles). We
never found each other…
… so instead
I took a walk to…
… and on the
“Île des Cygnes” (Isle of the Swans) - an artificial island created in 1827. It
stretches between the Pont de Bir-Hakeim (see previous post) and Pont de
Grenelle (see previous post), is 850 m (2,800 ft) long, only 11 m (36 ft) wide.
This is also where you find the quarter scale copy of the Statue of Liberty, offered
by Americans in Paris in 1889 – 100 years after the Revolution. (I wrote about
the Liberty statues in posts on my previous blog, see here).
I didn’t see
any swans, but people reading, jogging, walking dogs….
I could also
see the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré Coeur….
… but what I
especially noticed was that the autumn colours are there.
Surprisingly,
“my” park is still green.
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