![]() ![]() When it was on offer, she subscribed to a magazine called Viva! that featured lots of photos of chic women dancing through puddles while holding umbrellas, sipping tiny cups of coffee or carrying small dogs in the baskets on the front of their bicycles.Īs far as he could remember she had never expressed a strong desire to visit Paris. Miriam, however, had a preoccupation with all things French. Paris just wasn't one of those places that appealed to him. Arthur thought that the water looked rather murky and that if he had to sail anywhere it would be on one of those sleek white cruise ships with swimming pools on board, hopping off around the Mediterranean. ![]() He had seen the Eiffel Tower on the place mats that Miriam had bought for half price in the Sainsbury's sale and once watched a program about a cruise boat that took tourists up and down the Seine, sailed by a captain who was both seasick and allergic to helping people. If Arthur had ever been asked to describe how he imagined Paris, he would say that actually he had never given much thought to the place. ![]()
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