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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostI can't help but feeling that the future historians (should we have still historians in two generations' time) will see this as emblematic of the Macron Era.
(and it really has nothing to do with Macron, he wasn’t even running for presidency when seabubbles was created).
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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
It was a galéjade my dear ursus. I'm not sure I get you on this though. When I first posted on this venture approx. 1 year ago I remember you being negative about it but what's fundamentally wrong with a few water taxis on the Seine? There's no public money involved or it's very negligible and the company has said that the average ride (from, say, Notre-Dame to Eiffel Tower) would be about €10-12, so giving a chance to the general public to enjoy a very original ride on the Seine (not Batobus or bateau-mouche) for a low fare. What's not to like in that?
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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
I don't know any of the details, just that the municipality said that they'd help with the logistics (the hubs in particular, helping to negotiate with the French navigation authority etc.) but to a max. of €1m I think, something like that, very negligible, I quoted the figure on here last year and I think it's that sort of ballpark figure. I do hope they'll be paying the City something, you'd expect them to anyway but I don't know about the nuts and bolts.
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If there’s no public money involved, and the city is getting a fair rent, then I still find them daft but am not fundamentally opposed.
They are certainly a damn sight better than the cigarette boat (and related infrastructure) that the Finance Ministry extorted as part of their deal to leave the Louvre for Bercy.
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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
Yep, they've done very daft things in the past (eg Autolib' and getting involved with Vincent Bolloré), and still now of course, but I really don't think this is one of them (whatever public money is involved in this probably is peanuts. I suppose when you're €6bn in the red as the Paris municipality currently is, a few extra millions are painless).
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This is the Samadhi. It's owned by hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb.
Last edited by Femme Folle; 04-09-2018, 23:24.
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This is a test post. I don't know why I'm having trouble posting images from my Google Photos
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1punvfxZd8HbuH8h6
ETA: So this method won't display the photo, but if you click on the link, you can see the image in Google Photos and you'll be able to zoom in and see it in greater detail.
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It's being more or less constantly dredged to make sure that it remains so, but those bulk cargo ships look like absolute Leviathans up around Hudson and the like, where the river is both narrow and has meaningful islands.
Marine Traffic tells me that the Rickmers Antwerp is sailing from Savannah.
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