http://pretavoyager.blogspot.com/ has to be one of my top 5 sites I visit every day. It's my little piece of daily virtual-travel, you should definately check out her blog. We've been to Paris twice now, and in Summer and I had no idea that the Paris Plage (Paris Beach) initiative is now in it's 9th year??? Starting in 2002 Paris Plage is a free summer event that transforms several areas in Paris into beach area each with a distinct theme. How clever!! It was the brainchild of Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, originally criticized as being extravagant and now celebrated as iconic and innovative.
The different scenes include sun baking sand arena, swimming in pools suspended over the Seine, kayaking the Seine and the free concerts about town. As I've found out it's normally run from mid July to mid August 8am to midnight every day!!! Apparently several European cities have now copied the idea, to think they have to re-create a beach when in Sydney, Australia we are so very lucky to have it surround us. Nice to dream about Paris - great to live in Sydney :)
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