Paris vs. Paris
Paris 1.0: the tourist versionNotre-Dame-De-Paris, Les Champs-Elysées, l'Arc de Triomphe, Le Louvre, la Tour Eiffel, the souvenirs shops, shopping, la Concorde etc...
Here is the Paris I got those two last days, and that I had so many times. You just wait in line like every stupid tourists, you look at things like a kid, you enjoy and say it's the best time of your life ever, that this is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, you buy a small Eiffel tower for your parents, you eat in a restaurant along La Seine, or you're trying to not look like a tourist sometimes, drinking a coffee on a terrace reading Le Monde. It's funny the first times, very cool.
I'm simply tired of this.
Here is my Paris
Paris 2.0: Laurent's version
I get out on Châtelet. I walk straight to Beaubourg and drink a coffee on the bar of this bistrot that is on the corner of the street, not far from the Arcades. After, I walk along he streets, enter the shops, sit down near a fountain. My iPod is always on, playing cool music, rock most of the time. I need something that smells the city. I try to take some new ways where tourists are not. I just walk towards Le Marais. I find a building I know and go to the swedish cultural center. After a fika, I shop some books in this little library in the corner of the street. I come back to Beaubourg and his little café not far from Centre Pompidou, in the back of this little church. I start reading and order a glass of Bourgogne. I like to watch people passing. Later, I may take another Metro to whereever. If my bank account is not too bad, I'll go to the Virgin Megastore on Champs-Elysées. Maybe two hours. Then, it's time for Montmartre, at sunset time, it is the best. I called a friend earlier and he joins me now. We find a Bar à Vin lost in the little streets, where noone go. We're drinking something full of flavor, maybe eat a potatoe. Then, it's time to go home again. On my change in Châtelet, I decide to get out and walk along La Seine, in the light, to the next station.
It feels great. Very melo but great.
Tomorrow...
written by lolo/ @ 23:43
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