Paris

Paris, we all know, can be considered one of the most exciting, historical, artful, romantic city in the world. For the fourth time, I have been there with some friends, to celebrate New Year’s Eve just under the Eiffel Tower, in Place Trocadéro.

I have never travelled on a more crowded subway, never seen such a mixture of different people with different skin colour and somatic features.

Amazing. I can almost smell the scent of vin chaud which pervaded the streets of the cité, I can taste Marcel Proust’s madeleines as well. I see the Musée du Louvre with its thousands and thousands of canvases, I feel the slight rain when we had our proménade on Montmartre hill, I’m still struck by the bright red light of the Moulin Rouge. And what about l’Avenue des Champs Elysées, the latin quartier, Notre Dame, the breathtaking Institut du Monde Arabe? And I’m forgetting to mention Gaston Léroux’s Opéra Garnier, the Espace Dalì with a great deal of unseen drawings inspired to Alice in Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde and more…  So many places, so many beauties to admire and which to learn from.

It was the fourth time, but it will never be enough, even going back there a thousand or a million times.

E.