After a long Easter weekend we returned to the city in our rental car on Monday morning and snagged a park just outside the Jardin des Plantes, poor Noisette in her handbag as dogs aren’t allowed in this particular park (or indeed throughout most parks in Paris, a little twist of irony for a dog-friendly city with over 300 000 of them). The cherry blossoms welcomed us branches laden with fuchsia petals forming a magnificent wall of flowers stretching to the sky and we gently played “would you mind please possibly maybe taking our photo if you don’t mind, we’ll of course take yours after” with some other nice visitors.
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