Really, the best way to see anything at all is to walk, and a walk by the canal is a leisurely Sunday thing to do. Get off the metro at Port d'Orleans- change at Gare d'Est, the streets are narrow and paved in cobblestones along both sides of a canal that goes through Paris. Spotted a small group of musos including a guitars, ukelele, flute and singer practising folk songs.
It is possible to rent a houseboat and travel all the way down. They stop as this one did at each lock to wait while the water drains out and then the next gate opens when the waterlevel meets the other side. There were bicycles and kids onboard as well as women sunbaking in bikinis while pedestrians watched from the bridge overhead. What a way to go.
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