I want everybody to close their eyes unless you're driving.

And imagine the year is 1802.

You are standing in the boots of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Sheik.

You're even wearing his hat.

Sheik.

And you're looking over Paris trying to figure out the logistics to make some rivers connect

and to change the face of not just Paris, but France.

The solution? Build a canal.

Now, fast forward to 2022, standing in your own shoes.

Even more chic.

And you're looking at the basins de le Villette and the Canal du Lourke, the less popular younger brothers of the Canal Saint-Mataun.

That's right.

And those two sort of waterways that I mentioned run through the 19th Aeron Desmond of Paris will be the focus for today's episode and have created an environment surrounding them that is

lively, pulsing, fun.

This young, modern.

Yeah.

Like lots of new builds.

The kind of place where you can have lunch in a house that's been transformed to a restaurant.

Dinner at a really cool new brewery.

And if you're fancy, you could take in some classical music

at a brand new concert hall don't mind if i do ladies and gentlemen you are listening to the

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