Paris removes Pont des Arts love locks
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Paris removes Pont des Arts love locks
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...idge/28209183/
So pleased to read this, but I didn't know part of the bridge had collapsed due to weight of locks.
So pleased to read this, but I didn't know part of the bridge had collapsed due to weight of locks.
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I saw a chase credit card ad in travel and leisure yesterday that said:
So you can
rent a motorbike in Milan
head for Cinque Terre
walk along the via dell'Amore
Seal your love with a padlock on the bridge
and discover the thrill of cliffside dining
I am writing them, stop encouraging people to do this.
So you can
rent a motorbike in Milan
head for Cinque Terre
walk along the via dell'Amore
Seal your love with a padlock on the bridge
and discover the thrill of cliffside dining
I am writing them, stop encouraging people to do this.
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The locks are appearing in other countries as well.
http://10mosttoday.com/10-awesome-lo...und-the-world/
I'd like to see cities get serious about graffiti too.
http://10mosttoday.com/10-awesome-lo...und-the-world/
I'd like to see cities get serious about graffiti too.
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It's about time. We saw them a few years ago and I actually through they were cute, but a couple of years later it looked like a total mess. Stupid tourist! What more can you expect.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iberian...57634118072262
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iberian...57634118072262
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Last month, we saw locks on random pieces of chain link fencing along the cliff walk in Newport, RI, and watched a couple placing one on a pedestrian bridge in Wellfleet, MA. It's a global epidemic of stupid and ugly and it can't end soon enough for me.
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I often wonder who starts these stupid trends, and how they spread? This particular one has been reported in major publications, for example. The only benefit is to those vendors selling the locks near the Seine, and I'm sure they don't have international PR agents to have started it. I wonder if it was just some dumb travel writer/publication and it got picked up. I admit sometimes I read stuff in major travel magazines or newpaper travel sections that isn't very astute advice or by people who don't even know what they are talking about that much.
But it has spread to many other cities, also, it is just the craziest thing (like NYC, Rome, FLorence, many others). It started around 10-15 years ago.
But it has spread to many other cities, also, it is just the craziest thing (like NYC, Rome, FLorence, many others). It started around 10-15 years ago.