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When wandering around Paris you see some amazingly beautiful parks and gardens but it isn't until you see gardeners cutting the grass by hand with scissors and teams of six men working through flower beds that you really realise how much hard work and money is put into maintaining it all.  It's worth it though!

The French also take their food pretty seriously.  Check out this meal we saw at the reptile enclosure at the Menagerie at the Jardins des Plantes.  This impressive looking salad of endive, beetroot, grated carrot and olives was for some turtles!  I just love how carefully the meal as been arranged!

Not only does Paris have very well used bikes for hire, it also has electric cars for hire.  I don't have the full story but it appears that once you've registered with an account you can take a car when you need one and then return them to charge for the next person.  I'm not sure if you need to book or if you can take them at will but it's a great idea in a big city!

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