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Take
the brightest city of Old Europe and plunk down the latest innovation
from the New World, add a couple New York writers and a grumpy digital
photographer, and what do you get? Segways in Paris, yet
another compromised yet edgy series from Slate's Well-Traveled.
The offical correspondent was Tad Friend, a New Yorker
staffer, traveling on his unofficial honeymoon with his writerly
wife Amanda Hesser of the New York Times' food section.
This
time production included making one-minute videos, along with photography,
daily audio and field production. Our hosts included Sylvain Pernin
of the European transportation company Keolis,
which is planning to rent Dean Kamen's two-wheel invention the Segway
to Parisian pedestrians. Unlike earlier "road trips" for
Well-Traveled, this time we never even left town, but just hissed
and glided through the arrondissements. It was, as the French say,
"cool."
Don't
forget:
The
Outlaw Trail In the dusty tracks of Butch Cassidy, with
Alexandra Fuller.
Costa
Rica: Exploring Ecotourism Turtles and trogons, with Natalie
Angier.
The
Blues Highway From the Deep South to the South Side, with
Tim Cahill.
Scandinavian Architecture & Design
Clean lines and pastels, with Jim Hall.
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