Travel

The pulchritudinous public pools of Paris

Getting back to my long-running European swimming pool fantasy itinerary, it looks like you’d hit the jackpot in Paris.

Yes, we tend to think of Paris as fancy and somewhat formal, but this article says Paris really comes to life in the city’s “stunning” public pools.

She had no answer as to why the most perfectly appointed Parisians, so consumed with fashion rules and rigid etiquette on the city’s streets, have no issue flaunting their informality in the showers.

β€œWe are all a mix of contradictions,” she said.

And best of all, thanks to the upcoming Olympics, they’re even swimming in the Seine now.

πŸ‘‰ pulchritudinous [puhl-kri-tood-n-uhs]
– a synonym for “beautiful” that starts with a “p” πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

That’s it! Who’s down for a swimmingly fun time in France? πŸŠπŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Quotes

“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.”

I love the proactive attitude behind this quote from the author of The Little Prince.

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry

Life imitates art. The Little Prince is narrated by a pilot who crash-lands his airplane. And sadly enough, the author himself crashed – and died – while flying an airplane in France a year after the novel’s publication.

But the author did enable his future, even under Nazi-occupied France. It just took some patienceThe Little Prince was published in his home country only after liberation from the Nazis.