- Watching the cafés and petites boutiques open from my balcony in the morning
- Falling into a trance at an organ concert in Notre Dame
- Getting lost in the Louvre
- Endless people watching at le Jardin du Luxembourg
- A waiter's delight in our return to his café
- The two young Frenchmen who sang Italian opera (while intoxicated) to Nicole and I from our balcony overlooking a quiet courtyard
- My auntie telling me she hopes I find a man as handsome as Hippolyte Flandrin's Jeune Homme nu assis au bord de la mer, figure d'étude (1855) at the Louvre
- Slight disappointment in the view from Sacre-Coeur
- The surprising view from the Centre Pompidou
- Stuffing my face with macarons from Ladurée (and forgetting to save some for Mum!)
- The look of confusion from a pâtissiere when Mum pronounced everything in Italian instead of French (she does not look a bit Italian!)
- A kind, older British man offering to lead the way into the Catacombs (I was too afraid!)
- Sunlight and music and ice cream in the gardens of Versailles
- Peaceful strolls in the 9e on Sunday afternoons
- Packed bars and vodka caramel au beurre salé
- Getting cat-called by aggressive men at Le Marché Père-Lachaise Boulevard de Ménilmontant
- Getting harassed by Romani children who are trained and forced to steal at La Défense
- City juice and cigarette butts
aug 20 2012 ∞
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