Bottoms Up & Anchors Away!

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This has always struck me as one of the dodgiest parts of the city, this microscopic Seine-side walkway, and if you look closely you can just about see someone waywalking...

Not to be negotiated on a murky moonlit night when you've had a few.

I'm always surprised the thing exists at all, this person-wide passageway in between the Pont d'Austerlitz and the Viaduc of the same name, it's just so dodgy, but I'm repeating myself...

There's a flood memory inside that same viaduct which few people see reminding us of just how high the flood of 1910 got - it's on a 100 year cycle, you know. Woops. That's the one that had people paddling through the streets of the city, and we're just waiting for the repeat showing anytime at a riverbank near you...

That little walkway wouldn't be much use in such circumstances, it'd be quite a few feet under and just a bitter-sweet memory. Maybe we'll see such an occurence again and will have to rewrite all those 1910 flood markers with 2012 ones. Or 2013. Or 14... I'll keep you posted, if you keep the canoes at the ready. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. They do. Cheers. Bottoms up.

And why not...

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