Paris, Rive Gauche

[poliphilo]

These two were taken from the same seat at a restaurant on the left bank. I think they're my favourites from the whole trip.

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I love Paris in the spring time...

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I'm obviously dying with impatience for going to Rome for the first time ever in a few weeks, but I'm equally impatient to go to Paris with Denis in August. I've only been there once (in 2001) since I lived there back in 1997-1998, and there really are times when I miss it still.

Paris just "works" for me; perhaps because it was the first place I lived after moving out from my parents with a single ticket, a suitcase and a grand fortune of 300 pounds. It was my first experience with living in a big city - as well as living on my own with no parental control whatsoever - and Paris was very good to me. I had my local food market, my Louvre season-ticket, my favourite walks... I want to see all that again, and also of course I want to show all of this to Denis who has been to Paris several times but never with somebody who has lived there.

Ville de Lumière, here I come!

Re: I love Paris in the spring time...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My parents took me to Paris in my early teens- as a reward for passing my "O" levels. I went all round the Louvre and sauntered in the Tuileries and bought nudie magazines from a riverside bouquiniste and that was about it until now.