Tagged With "Petite Ceinture"

Fascinating! I've been by the front many times and I never knew!

Fascinating past. Love the bike gate.

In an e-mail, Jonathan L provides an update—a happy one—on the Gare Ornano. It appears that about a year after I took my pictures, the station was sold, the KFC is gone, and a new cafe+recycling center has renovated the station; a picture below shows a view of the rear very different from the one below the KFC picture above. The site now also hosts food trucks! Thanks to Jonathan L for finding the followup, which can be found at http://www.larecyclerie.com/ It's in French, but if that's a...

Photo by Ralf Roletschek, Wikimedia Commons Hong Kong residents are upset after consultant, SitKwok-keung, recommended Hong Kong scrap part of the tram network. Sit Kwok-keung, said the tram is too slow, blocks traffic and is unnecessary. Thousands...

Travel Rob visits a unique sculpture trail in Petite- Lameque, New Brunswick, Canada

Travel Rob was visiting a picturesque New Brunswick town that has commissioned art that helps you see the life of the village.

 Six live chickens have been stolen from the mini-farm that's part of a hip bar/bistro/urban farm called Le Recyclerie. The owners and authorities suspect foul play (sorry...could not resist).

The Petit Palais, and its neighbor the Grand Palais, were built to house exhibits at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Since then it has housed the city's Fine Arts Museum (that's city as opposed to national...).

Where Gumbo was, as Jonathan L, with help from Lynn Milar recognized, was behind an abandoned station on an abandoned rail line—the Petite Ceinture—that once girdled Paris, connecting its rail stations and freight yards, and providing both passenger and freight service.