Can it get any better than this? Only if the day continues with strolls around a rainy Paris...
When I was asking friends about what to see in the city, they were saying- just walk... Many thought it was too crowded, too expensive, too touristic...
A beatitude of floating ellipses...
Later on, I was able to translate what my friends meant.
Paris is too crowded by beautiful people, each of one deserving a page in a fashion magazine. It is too crowded with art which asks "You think you know what beauty is?", "Are you sure that THIS is beauty?", "Does it shock you?", "Do you want more?", "Are you sure you CAN take more?". The questions just never end.
It is expensive because there's no money that can buy you the feeling you get when in Paris. You may think you can recreate it, but how? You can't pay any money for it to rain so you could enter a café, drink a glass of wine, then go out in the sun, get busted by the rain again, run under 'some' bridge, then walk along the Seine trying to catch the rainbow, then get caught under the rain again so to enter 'some' museum and feel like it's rain, sun, wind and rainbow altogether...
It is too touristic because that's all it is about. We're just passengers on this 'train'. We can keep the ticket, but never the place...
I just ended up feeling like a cactus ripped from a desert and brought to grow roots in an "Orangerie"...
Do you have a ticket?
