All Along the Seine

All along the Seine, as in All along the Watchtower, pops into my mind when I see this image. It just feels like a scene from the middle ages, and not the middle ages that I guess we had in the Americas. For me, the middle-ages still has iron rings jutting out from the stone walls to tie up boats; and roughly-hewn cobble stones that have been worn down by the river; and there probably was a time, when the winds died down, and small ships were pulled along the water by mules on the walkway; and in the distance, at least during the middle ages in the so-called cities, there would be church steeples; and, watch-towers and there was certain to be a princess that kept the view from the watchtower.