Paris iPhone Photo Chronicles
~ Lean, Green, Headbanging Machine ~
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This sort of structure is not uncommon in the Marais, where sometimes it looks like the whole place is creaking and about to crumble around you if you utter your shalom aleichems or your fabulous dahlings too enthusiastically.
It's not just relative hovels which have structural issues either. A wimsical wander through the Hôtel de Sully will reveal a couple of seriously seasick arches and door frames a long way from any oceanic disturbance.
Then again, there used to be a huge (sculpture of a) mole emerging from one of the neighbouring lawns transformed into a gigantic molehill, so maybe that has something to do with this creeping subsidence. Look, don't ask me, I just report what my eyes see, that's all!
Paris isn't the only place with this problem though. I was in London this weekend, and they say that in a few years we'll have a new tourist attraction which will no doubt be labelled 'The Leaning Tower of Ben', or some such. Just don't stand downlean of it - that's one headache you definitely don't need.
And why not...
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© 2012 Sab Will / Paris Set Me Free - Contact me directly for photo tours, interviews, exhibitions, etc.
© 2012 Sab Will / Paris Set Me Free - Contact me directly for photo tours, interviews, exhibitions, etc.
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