The River Seine Runs Through Paris,

“The Seine is a great place to have a crisis, since it clearly embodies the strength and the uncertainty, the beauty and the challenge of Paris itself.” – James Baldwin,

and over the years we have visited the River Seine a few times on our trips to Paris, and always wonder what souvenir, other than a model of the Eiffel Tower, to bring back with us, well that problem has now been solved by by a store in Paris, Messy Nessy’s Cabinet, at 19 Rue de Bièvre, 75005 Paris

Monday - Friday: 11 AM - 7 PM

Saturday: 2 PM - 7 PM

Sunday: Closed

From the shops owner:

“so when I decided to open a shop a stone’s throw from the Seine, I thought about how to create my personal ode to the iconic river. And the idea for Eau de Seine was born! It seemed so simple and yet it hadn’t been done before. On a warm spring day, I headed down to the riverbanks with a pitcher and scooped up my first ever batch of Seine water. We filtered it a few times with a coffee filter (although mind you, it was surprisingly clear before we did that) and it certainly had no nefarious odour to it – but of course, it’s not for consumption! It’s a novelty for the good-humoured, a souvenir that’s packs a little more punch than a plastic Eiffel Tower”

keeping to the River Seine as a theme, a few photographs of some of the happenings on the river,

when the river froze over temperatures dropped to -24C (-11.2F), freezing the Seine overnight on December 10. The river remained rock-solid until January 1880, when pieces of ice began to break, causing accidents and sinking boats while floating downstream,

on September 27, 1911, the deadliest bus accident in Paris history happened, a bus carrying 30 passengers swerved violently to avoid another bus and fell into the Seine. Priest Abbé Richard swam seven times to rescue survivors alongside other boats, tragically 11 people died,

photographs Source: France 3, in 2017 a whale washed up on the bank of the river,

the hyperrealistic fake sperm whale carcass was a stunt to bring attention to the endangerment of whales worldwide and the attack on our environment, it was left by notorious pranksters and art collective Captain Boomer, I have to say when the riots have finished we would like to visit again.