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| Banks of colour |
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| If you haven’t been to the Jardin des Plantes, you must next time you’re in Paris. |
The unmistakable wah-o-wah of the French police siren somewhere close by instantly takes me back over 30 years. A picnic and a stroll in Jardin des Plantes and we were assailed by a whole orchestra of heady fragrances - cut grass, herbs, flowers and trees. And the sound of insects - fat black woolly bees with silvery stripes down their backs, tawny bees in many sizes and swarms of others busy insects. The birds were leaping about having a wonderful time in this veritable smorgasbord. Even fat frogs were pretending to sun themselves among the water plants with an eye open for a lazy insect or three. Trees are in bloom everywhere and some pump out a heady intoxicating fragrance. Ah ...! Glorious. All this is watched over by Lamarck himself who, they claim, is the founder of the doctrine of evolution. Hmm ... Methinks perhaps Spencer kickstarted that body of thinking, but who am I to challenge!?
After those delightdul few hours (and masses of photos) we went looking for one of our favourite churches first glimpsed in the 1990s. Our combined memory is a bit leakybut eventually we found it! Chapelle Sainte Genevieve - tucked in behind the Pantheon on Montagne Sainte Genevieve. This church also goes by the name Eglise Saint Étienne du Mont. more to come .....
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| A wiley frog peeks out from undercover |
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| The bees loved these thistle-like flowers - sadly all signage in French (and Latin) |
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| Many fountains dot the Left Bank. After time in the Musée de Egouts however I didn't want to drink this water! |
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| Beautiful but I was still not tempted to drink the water |
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| Chapelle Sainte Geneviève |
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