La Grande Rue

This photo was on an advert for a realty company. It's a photo of our street (Grande Rue). It's undated but it looks to be from the early 20th century.  I don't have a recent photo from the same vantage point, but I've posted a photo from last year of the same street but the top of the hill.  The street still maintains some of its old world charm.

The postcard says that Garches had 4,407 inhabitants. Today the town has expanded both in area as well as inhabitants (18500 today according to the town's website).

Saturday on the Canal Saint Martin

Passing through one of the many the locks on the canal.

After last month's successful chocolate tour that we purchased from Groupon, we decided to scour their site for more touristy discounts.  To our delight we found offers for two site seeing items that we had on our "must see" list: Boat tour on the Canal Saint Martin and Napoleon's Tomb. This sunny Saturday we decided to take the canal tour.

There are three canals in Paris:  Canal St Martin, Canal St Denis, and Canal de l'Ourcq.  Canal St. Martin runs from the Bassin la Villette (a large artifical lake) in the northern 19th arrondissement through the 10th and right into the Seine River.