An update from the NYT on my favorite bridge in Paris!
A just-married couple posed for photos on Pont des Arts, one of the bridges to which lovers attach padlocks symbolic of undying love. Thibault Camus/Associated Press
On Bridges in Paris, Clanking With Love
PARIS — Johannes and Melissa. David and Michaela. Ben and Justin.
These are a few of the names written on thousands of metal padlocks attached to the railings of the Pont des Arts, one of the most beautiful of the bridges spanning the Seine as it winds through Paris.
The keys have long since been tossed into the water by those who attached the locks to the bridge, most of them couples who hoped that they would be, as the words on one lock put it, “Locked in love forever.”
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