Wherever I am, particularly if I'm flying solo, I seldom make it a priority to check out the museums, the top restaurants, the interesting stores. Mostly, I just walk ... and Paris provides the most interesting walks of any city I've visited. This is a typical walk for me on a day off. In fact, I'd been on all these streets before, seen all these sights, although I hadn't photographed them. Without any planning, the route from my apartment near the Folies Bergeres to the comic book store Album near the Sorbonne covered the spectrum of what's out there, everywhere: an odd little store, something new and striking, a moment of "what the--?", a historic building, a historic sculpture. On a good day, sights like these make me glad I'm in Paris. Even on a bad day, they provide a welcome break from the routine, like a couple hours in the exercise yard.
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