My Trolley Fucsia: Portaits of Paris: my personal perspective

21 ago 2014

Portaits of Paris: my personal perspective

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”, Ernest Hemingway said in "A movable feast", an autobiography where he wrote about his years as a young expatriate writer in Paris in the 1920s.

To be honest, I have never read this book, but my chère amie Enrica did, and taught me this sentence which I have never forgotten because it is absolutely true: Paris is a feast (la Fête), and it literally stays with you.

Visiting a city as a tourist has nothing to do with LIVING in the city, when you discover new places and then create your own routines with your groups of friends. This is especially true if this city is Paris.

Besides the several trips to Paris I had done as a visitor, I had the chance to live in Paris as a young (wo)man not only once, but twice, and in 2 different moments of my life:
1. One semester as a student, during my first exchange period at university
2. One semester as an intern / thesis writer, during my last months of the master (3 years after the first time)

..and they have been two of the most incredible experiences I've ever had! The first time, it was Erasmus, what else can I say ?!! I got to know Paris really well for the first time and met incredible people. The second time, it was even better if possible...Although I had internship+killing thesis, I had the best time ever with the best people ever, and have been travelling quite a lot around France.

This post doesn't intend to tell you the "things-to-do" in Paris or stuff like that -you all know that!- but instead to show you a little bit Paris as I lived it in my personal perspective. Hopefully, maybe the photos will fascinate you a little bit exactly how I used to get fascinated, every single morning, while I walked surrounded by that beautiful architecture - yes, even when going to work!! What a beautiful place, what a delicious food (the simpler, the better: du pain, du vin et du fromage). Quelle joie de vivre, in Paris!

Since I am in love with this city and France in general, I will make other posts in the future where I will talk about day trips out of the city and nice weekends in lovely French regions.

For now, profitez des photos!

Parisian roofs