"Let's just stay in this one city for a couple of weeks and not go anywhere else in Europe", I said without an iota of doubt in my mind. I knew Paris would never disappoint us.
The fleeting passage of a tourist has never held much appeal to me. I wanted to visit Paris to soak in the parisian sounds, the sights, enjoy my daily cup of coffee with fresh baguette, laze around in the cafes, and walk idly through the winding streets...
If all the world's a stage, as Shakespeare once alluded, then it must be called Paris. Here, you are never too far from a new act unfurling somewhere. You may stumble upon it in a busy metro station, find it just around the turn, inside a cafe, at a street corner, on the promenade next to Seine, on the steps of a church. Where it patiently waits...
Waits for you to arrive and set it in motion. And before you realize it, you are a character in this play yourself.
Paris is not just in its churches, museums, Seine or Eiffel, it is equally, if not more, in its bookshops, cafes, gardens, its people and their 'Joie de vivre'.
So when you come here, be not like the hurried grains of sand of an hourglass; instead pause, stand still, raise a toast and let this city come alive around you...
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Pierre's Librairie des Alpes on Rue de Seine is a bookshop dedicated to the mountains
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| Catching up with an old friend |
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| Soap Bubble artist near Fontaine Saint-Michel |
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Game of chess in progress, at Jardin du Luxembourg
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| Spontaneous karaoke session inside a metro station |
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| Sketch artists near Place de la Concorde - you can get your sketch done for €20 |
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| Waiter, Montparnasse district |
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| Young fans at the grave of the famous French singer Serge Gainsbourg |
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| Seine promenade |
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| Hugo Barahona's beautiful harp performance on the steps of Sacre-Coeur |
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Paris city view from the Montmartre hilltop
Camera - Nikon D610
Special thanks to my parents for gifting me the new Nikon D610.
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