Place de la Concorde – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com Making a Handmade Modern Home one DIY project at a time. Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:17:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/francoisetmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Untitled-2-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Place de la Concorde – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com 32 32 76357554 Happenstance: Jardin des Tuileries & Pont des Arts https://francoisetmoi.com/uncategorized/happenstance-jardin-des-tuileries-pont-des-arts/ Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:17:06 +0000 http://francoisetmoi.com/?p=5495 When Ken and I made our “must see” lists for Paris, Jardin des Tuileries hadn’t made the cut because we didn’t know much about this garden, so I guess it just wasn’t on our radar, but as we made our way home on the 2nd day, we happened to stumble upon it and decided to have a look. Jardin des Tuileries is a public garden located between the Place de la Concorde and The Louvre in Central Paris, with sightlines to L’arc de Triomphe. Similar to most of Paris’ public gardens, there are a plethora of green metal chairs and loungers for anyone to hang out and relax, a small pond and plenty of pristinely manicured foliage to admire. Paris’ gardens are impeccably maintained, but also super user-friendly–these green spaces really get used by a little bit of everybody! They always seemed to be bustling, but they’re so vast, and there are so many of them tucked in around the city that they never seemed over-crowded (maybe that’s the city-dweller in me talking though!). I don’t know if it was just that we had sunny weather most of the time, or if I’d been cooped up inside too long over the winter, but the gardens and parks […]

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