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Transcanal
Nov. 07 - 17, 1996
Barbados to Acapulco
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Date__Day _ Port
LEEY TURN Nov. 7 Th. Barbados (Bridgetown)

a . , . British West Indies __
MEMBERS OF Europe's St. Lucia (Castires}, Wi
Situationist International

i Nov.9 Sat. St. Vincent (Kingstown)
had a novel way of getting British West Indies
6 nel . tee opera em arene a os
around their beloved Paris ‘Nov. 10 Sun. _Gritising the Caribbean Sea
— they walked. Nov. 11 Mon. Aruba (0 ‘ad
In the post-war era of the ov. 11 Mon. Aruba (Oranjestad)

“50s and ‘60s Guy Debord cee ae ean Antilies ss Bar

and his band of cultural p Caribean Set
pranksters were struck by Nov. 13 Wed. Panama Canal _ _.
the alienated nature of |Nov.14 Th. Cruising the Pacific Ocean
contemporary society. ier 7 Fr. mare tbe Pacific Ocean.

These concerns were part
of a much larger critique
which included the distrib-
ution of small-circulation
publications as altematives
to official mass media.
Their involvement in street
culture culminated in their
participation in the studeni
riots of May 1968.

A map of Paris designed
inthe 1960s gave the

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“While the strike has turned
Parisians into whiny, cantan-
kerous complainers — most
tourists haven't noticed any
change in their personali-
ties.” — Cathy Jones, This
Hour has 22 Mintues, CBC-
TV broadcast, Dec, 11, 1995.

BY JOHN GOODMAN
Contributing Writer

THE WIRE photo said it all: a
frazzled couple, dragging their
_ luggage behind them, run past

burning barricades at Paris’

Orly Airport.

‘'Newspapers around the
world published the dramatic
image with their coverage of
last winter’s transportation
strike in France.

: It looked like the volatile
days of May °68 all over again
as protests against announced
._ Bovernmen’ austerity mea-
“‘sures shut down the capital's
“: transit network in the weeks

“leading up to Christmas.

With the Paris Métro and
“RER. suburban rail system out
“of service it was necessary to
‘find other ways of getting .
‘around — bike sales skyrock-
eted, and gas. pump action.
‘jumped 20% during the strike.

The additional cars brought °

the city slowed traffic to a__
v1 and made life miserable ;

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IN THE centre of Paris, a block from the Louvre an
angler fishes the Seine tor pike, dace and bream. |

for covamuters. -

lo other: European city

defines self by its river in the -

‘Same Way as Paris. The Seine’
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Canauxrama also takes sight-
seers on the Canal St. Martin
- “through northem Paris.
Up until .the 1960s. the
-French network. of. rivers and
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: Barge Association has built up

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lot for cars expected in
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,ing cathedrals and each of’
the oné hundred million:

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passengers ‘traversed the
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The Seine : -enters “Paris
from the southeast (see map in
bar) and: takes a leisurely
13km curve through the heart _
ofthe city: before heading
north. through: Normandy. ‘to
the English Channel.
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