A popular parking station for bicycles from Paris’s Vélib’ rental service was recently discovered to be in the Canal Saint-Martin. To give it a good scrubbing, the city drained the canal in January for the first time in 14 years. As the water subsided, a treasure trove that included discarded bicycles, shopping carts and wine bottles in a quantity sufficient to capture this fall’s harvest were revealed.
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