Le Olympics and Cleaning up the Seine River

[Marshal Davout]

I think I've heard that the river might need some cleaning up before the Olympics;
so I remembered some people were doing this in the oceans !

I don't know whether these would help; but these are some of the Ocean cleaning up initiatives and some of their "ships" might be useful ?

http://theoceancleanup.com/

and another one



( Not that I'm being critical of France; because surely the US has gotten places polluted too much in our own country ( which I should be able to say, because I am an american ! )

These boats or something like them might be able to help the river in time for the Olympics start !

[Marshal Davout]

More Olympics Excitement !

The Olympic Flame movement !

I got this from my Elysee email;
but your French is undoubtedly better than Moi; Ha !

http://france3-regions.francetvinfo....amme-olympique

[Scruffydog777]

Well I guess they have experience with cleaning the Seine river. Here is a video from 8 years ago where they were cleaning up the Canal Saint-Martin.



This was the area where the music video Amelie was filmed.



Cleaning the river will be a hard task but what might be even harder is getting rid of the graffiti and keeping it from coming back.

[Marshal Davout]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

Well I guess they have experience with cleaning the Seine river. Here is a video from 8 years ago where they were cleaning up the Canal Saint-Martin.



This was the area where the music video Amelie was filmed.



Cleaning the river will be a hard task but what might be even harder is getting rid of the graffiti and keeping it from coming back.

They had a video on right after yours which shows some of the palns for Cleaning up the Seine !

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Marshal Davout

They had a video on right after yours which shows some of the palns for Cleaning up the Seine !

The Charles river in my home city of Boston used to be so filthy about 50 years ago, that they said you needed to get a tetanus shot if you happened to fall in. Maybe you heard this song about it? Boston Harbor was much the same. They've done a tremendous amount of work over the decades and it's much improved but I imagine it and what is going on in Paris are projects with no end

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[Marshal Davout]

I've never quite made it to Boston; Funny the places you never get to in your own country ! I imagine the French must have made it to every place in their country ! And the British also ?
At one time as a kid, we went to Canada, but I don't remember where that was and we did go down and see the Niagara Falls ( slowly I turned....step by step... ! Ha !)
I had to go on a short service excursion to New York, but we didn't see anything of the city; and I've dropped guys off at the Philly airport to catch planes, but I've never really seen the City of Philadelphia, either ! Being a little older now; I 'm kind of a stick in the mud, and I don't like to travel much; although I would if I had to for a good reason !

At one time the late night hosts used to make fun; because they would say the Hudson River around New York was on Fire again ! Now you really have had to pollute a River for it to catch Fire ! Ha ! But I think they have managed to clean it up some since those days !

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Marshal Davout

I've never quite made it to Boston; Funny the places you never get to in your own country ! I imagine the French must have made it to every place in their country ! And the British also ?
At one time as a kid, we went to Canada, but I don't remember where that was and we did go down and see the Niagara Falls ( slowly I turned....step by step... ! Ha !)
I had to go on a short service excursion to New York, but we didn't see anything of the city; and I've dropped guys off at the Philly airport to catch planes, but I've never really seen the City of Philadelphia, either ! Being a little older now; I 'm kind of a stick in the mud, and I don't like to travel much; although I would if I had to for a good reason !

At one time the late night hosts used to make fun; because they would say the Hudson River around New York was on Fire again ! Now you really have had to pollute a River for it to catch Fire ! Ha ! But I think they have managed to clean it up some since those days !

That's kind of funny. I just recently got back from a trip to Europe which included Slovakia and Hungary which completes a list of countries in Europe I wanted to visit . I've had the benefit of working for a major airline which gives me great travel benefits. It seems a lot of the people I had worked with were afraid of going to Europe because of the differences in language and other things, but me learning about Alizée, made me want to visit Europe and I found out the differences were tough, but far from inconquerable and it opened up a whole new world for me.