Buttes-Chaumont

Paris parks go 24h in heat wave

In the face of an ongoing heat wave, Paris authorities are keeping five large parks open around the clock, Monday to Friday. 127 other smaller parks are already open full-time.

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Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris: Where Gumbo Was (#67)

Paris’s Parc des Buttes Chaumont, in the eastern part of the city, can fool you. In this case, it fooled all but PortMoresby, who somehow knew this seemingly tropical wilderness, with its sketchy bridge and photographed through falling rain, was really “faux rain forest,” and knew which one.

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Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris: Where Gumbo Was (#67)

Paris’s Parc des Buttes Chaumont, in the eastern part of the city, can fool you. In this case, it fooled all but PortMoresby, who somehow knew this seemingly tropical wilderness, with its sketchy bridge and photographed through falling rain, was really “faux rain forest,” and knew which one.

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