In a not too surprising turn of events, we returned to The Netherlands for our main summer holiday in 2024. After taking a break in 2023, we just couldn’t keep away! As had become the custom, we’d split our trip in two, spending one week somewhere we’d not stayed before and the other week at Duinrell.
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For our final day in Paris, we planned to take it easy with a stroll along the Coulée verte René-Dumont, otherwise known as the Promenade Plantée. Running along an old railway viaduct in the 12th arrondissement, in recent years this has been dubbed Paris’ High Line, but it predates New York’s High Line by 16 years.
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After a couple of rainy days, we wanted to make the most of a dry day by going for a wander along Paris’ Canal Saint-Martin. Located in the north east of the city, it connects the Canal de l’Ourcq to the Seine, travelling in a tunnel for nearly half its length.
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With our fifth day in Paris looking like another museum day, we arranged to visit the next rainy day activity on our list, a trip to the Centre Pompidou, the famous museum of modern art, designed in the high-tech style by the team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers and Renzo Piano.
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As with the previous day, when we went to The Paris Catacombs, we were in need for another rainy day activity. Fortunately, we weren’t short of those rainy day activities, with our youngest already very keen on visiting Paris’ science and industry museum, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie.
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Before arriving in Paris, given that the forecast wasn’t looking great, we had a list of rainy day activities planned. Top of that list was a trip The Paris Catacombs, an ossuary containing the remains of more than 6 million people. So as our fourth day in the city was one of those rainy days, we made plans to go there.
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After our wander round Montmartre in the morning, we were booked on a Fat Tire Tours’ night bike tour of Paris that evening, including a boat tour along the Seine part way through.
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For our first full day in Paris, we decided to go somewhere we’d not managed to on our previous visits to the city, the Montmartre district. Being a large hill with the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur on top of it, it’s a very distinctive district in Paris, visible from many other parts of the city.
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After arriving in Paris and dumping our stuff at our Airbnb apartment, we were keen to get out and explore nearby. As I mentioned in the first of the Paris 24 posts, we were staying in the 17th arrondissement in the north west of the city, in the Porte de Clichy neighbourhood, not far from the Périphérique.
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Somewhat understably, Paris has become a poster child for cycling and urbanism in recent years. With mayor Anne Hidalgo’s visionary leadership demonstrating what can be achieved with sufficient political will, she’s transformed the city from a cycling no-go, to a model for other cities to follow.
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