Today...

We went to one of my daughter's favorite places in Paris, Le Jardin d'Acclimatation.

We live in the 16th arrondissement and are only about six blocks from the edge of the city.  Once you cross the "beltway", the périphérique, you enter a 2000-acre park called Bois de Boulogne. Despite its reputation for prostitutes at night, it has been a wonderful retreat for us during the day when we are tired of the concrete and the noise of the city.

In the far side of these woods is an amusement park called Le Jardin de Acclimatation with playgrounds, rides, trampolines, animals, gardens, and much more.

From our apartment to the woods in 10 minutes.

(And, yes, that man is carrying a baguette through the woods.)