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The remote postcards are a weekly chain where international reporters in NPR participate in footage of moments of their lives and work all over the world.
This summer, for the first time in the twenties of the twentieth century, opens the Seine River to swim!
There are dedicated public swimming places, and the sidewalks have been built in several, such as this near the Eiffel Tower. Even in cloudy days, Parisians and tourists flow to them.
You can swim or swim rolls on the light current of the river in the available area. All the time, the traffic of boats and pleasure continues – with the experience given a kind of surreal attention. When I stopped here last month, two rescuers told me that there was a lot to search for it here more than the normal pool.
For years, mayors in the city were promised to clean the polluted river to swim. It finally happened with the Olympic Games last summer, where huge surplus tanks were built to contain wastewater during heavy rains.
It was not possible to open the river to the sponsors better, as Paris suffers from successive heat waves. So, as is the case in impressionist paintings and ancient pictures, Parisians can cool again in their river.
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