Paris - A City of Bridges

     As of 2006, there were more than 300 bridges of one type or another in Paris.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Paris  There are bridges for cars, bridges for trains, and bridges just for pedestrians.  If you are a movie buff, you might remember a line in the film "Sabrina" in which the title character recommends picking your favorite bridge in Paris, then having your coffee there every day.  I managed to traverse just a few of these structures.  I couldn't pick a favorite.

This entertainer was on the Pont Saint-Louis. 

This is Pont Nuef, the oldest standing bridge over the Seine River.  

Young people sitting along the river at Pont Nuef.  

It's a tradition for lovers to inscribe their names on a lock, attach the lock to a bridge's fencing, and throw the key into the river.  As long as the lock remains, the love will last, or so the story goes.

There are so many locks attached to this pedestrian bridge, the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghar, that the walls appear to be solid.  There is some concern that the weight of the locks will weaken the bridge.  There is also talk of moving these locks to a different site and outlawing future locking on bridges.  Until then, the tradition continues with lock sellers doing a brisk business on the bridge.

A closer view of the locks on Passerelle L-S-S..