After last nights eat fest we needed to get out for a little exercise today. So we walked along the canal down as far as Place de la Republic. A few days ago we noticed that there were fences going up along the canal St. Martin down along our bus route and we wondered if they might be safety precautions for the New Years celebration. But today I was looking at some online article on Paris and I found that they are going to drain the canal for a cleanup beginning in January.
They will put a barrier on the locks of our Basin de la Villette to stop any flow at that point. It is down at Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, so there will be water next to us all winter but from Stalingrad down to the Seine it will be dry and they will clean it out. So they have the barriers from there all the way to where it gets covered over at Oberkampf and Richard Lenoir. I'm looking forward to being a sidewalk superintendent for at least part of the project.
So our walk took us down about half way along the canal, at which point we veered off into the neighborhood just north and east of Place de la Republic. We were looking for a highly recommended boulangerie which consistently gets good reviews, but of course today being the first it was closed. Still it's less than 5 minutes walk from our bus route so it will be easy to get to and sample some of the goodies. It was overcast most of the day and breezy so it was necessary to keep walking to keep our hands and feet warm, but we did sit for a few minutes a couple times and enjoyed to parade of people and animals as well as the birds wheeling overhead.
After last nights eat fest we needed to get out for a little exercise today. So we walked along the canal down as far as Place de la Republic. A few days ago we noticed that there were fences going up along the canal St. Martin down along our bus route and we wondered if they might be safety precautions for the New Years celebration. But today I was looking at some online article on Paris and I found that they are going to drain the canal for a cleanup beginning in January.
They will put a barrier on the locks of our Basin de la Villette to stop any flow at that point. It is down at Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, so there will be water next to us all winter but from Stalingrad down to the Seine it will be dry and they will clean it out. So they have the barriers from there all the way to where it gets covered over at Oberkampf and Richard Lenoir. I'm looking forward to being a sidewalk superintendent for at least part of the project.
So our walk took us down about half way along the canal, at which point we veered off into the neighborhood just north and east of Place de la Republic. We were looking for a highly recommended boulangerie which consistently gets good reviews, but of course today being the first it was closed. Still it's less than 5 minutes walk from our bus route so it will be easy to get to and sample some of the goodies. It was overcast most of the day and breezy so it was necessary to keep walking to keep our hands and feet warm, but we did sit for a few minutes a couple times and enjoyed to parade of people and animals as well as the birds wheeling overhead.
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