okay, i'm writing this for the third time, i've been instructed to write it in another program and just copy it into the little journal square. ok, point taken. where do all my entries go when i click submit and it takes me to the login page??? they are wandering out there in cyberville, all alone and cold and hungry and tired, i bet.
returned from paris on wednesday, and i'm still waking up at five in the morning feeling like i've slept until noon...i am an infrequent overseas traveller and a jet lag lightweight. i can't believe how atrocious the food is on an airplane these days...is that really what i've paid for? i'd rather eat dog food! oh well, it was nothing a huge bag of peanut m&m's couldn't compensate for. if anyone else has been to paris and hated it, then don't read this journal, because i'm in love with that city...i have never visited a city where i've instantly and easily slipped into its groove. yes, the langugage might seem suggestive because it is in fact the sexiest city on the face of the planet. there is an ease and langour that the parisiens live with that was completely magnetic for me. people were at ease in their own environment, they've had more than a thousand years to get used to living in such close proximity to one another...it almost seemed instinctual.
i saw the usual big city diseases, i don't think any city is immune to traffic, poverty, inflation, and pollution...but i swear there's something incredible brimming underneath all the trappings of a european urban centre. that little term "joie de vivre" (feeling the joys in everyday living) really came alive for me, and i hope to recreate some of what i felt there. north america is a different creature, i'm not sure how long i could last here now, after seeing the other side of the pond...i don't know that i'd settle in paris indefinitely (unless i won a lottery or something), but we talked a lot of moving there, how to do it???? even though i was exhausted physically when we came back to drudgery and cold, i feel a spark of something that definitely wasn't there before...
if anyone's curious, here's the link to some of our pics:
http://www.antimattermedia.com/paris
returned from paris on wednesday, and i'm still waking up at five in the morning feeling like i've slept until noon...i am an infrequent overseas traveller and a jet lag lightweight. i can't believe how atrocious the food is on an airplane these days...is that really what i've paid for? i'd rather eat dog food! oh well, it was nothing a huge bag of peanut m&m's couldn't compensate for. if anyone else has been to paris and hated it, then don't read this journal, because i'm in love with that city...i have never visited a city where i've instantly and easily slipped into its groove. yes, the langugage might seem suggestive because it is in fact the sexiest city on the face of the planet. there is an ease and langour that the parisiens live with that was completely magnetic for me. people were at ease in their own environment, they've had more than a thousand years to get used to living in such close proximity to one another...it almost seemed instinctual.
i saw the usual big city diseases, i don't think any city is immune to traffic, poverty, inflation, and pollution...but i swear there's something incredible brimming underneath all the trappings of a european urban centre. that little term "joie de vivre" (feeling the joys in everyday living) really came alive for me, and i hope to recreate some of what i felt there. north america is a different creature, i'm not sure how long i could last here now, after seeing the other side of the pond...i don't know that i'd settle in paris indefinitely (unless i won a lottery or something), but we talked a lot of moving there, how to do it???? even though i was exhausted physically when we came back to drudgery and cold, i feel a spark of something that definitely wasn't there before...
if anyone's curious, here's the link to some of our pics:
http://www.antimattermedia.com/paris
the Record Runner makes me haemorrhage money.
great pictures, I am now officially very jealous of your trip, and I thought that I had the travel-bug under control.