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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, New Yorker
columnist, traveling on unofficial honeymoon with his writerly wife
Amanda Hesser of the New York Times' food section
(you saw her in "Julie & Julia).
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 renting 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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