Être Parisien, ce n’est pas être né à Paris, c’est y renaître.
- Sacha Guitry
I am often asked what is it like to live in Paris. I try to avoid like the plague to sound like some dumb cliched line from a God awful ‘Emily in Paris’ episode (an act of cultural vandalism in misunderstanding other cultures). What I can’t put into words can be better expressed in music. Here is renowned French cellist Gautier Capuçon who plays L’hymne à l’amour d’Édith Piaf.He captures the mood as well anyone can to be a Parisian.
I fell in love with Paris when I was 16 years old.
This was the first time i visited the city. I still remember the day like it was yesterday. 3 hours drive with my best friend and my puppy i got for my birthday.
And oh damn… I fell…
15 years later and I moved to the place I loved.
Not only is felt in love with the city, a Parisian man stole my heart too. We met on e very unique way, but that… is a story for later.
I dont regret anything and my french is getting better and better! I start to know my way in this big beautiful city.
I'm living in Paris for a bit, and coming from Montreal, there's one really innocuous thing that surprised me; there's seeing grass and walking grass.
Well, for one there's fucking grass everywhere, but there's some grass, even on huge public parks, that is forbidden to walk on. Like huge patches of it, with something in the middle, most of the time a statue and some flowers, and you just can't exist on it.
And then there's normal grass you can be on, but the parks that have walking grass barely have benches (and I've never even seen a table in a park) and so you have to sit on the grass. I've bought a shower curtain for that purpose.
sometimes. i just have to remind myself that percy took annabeth to paris. like, canonically. he forgot their one-month anniversary. and took his girl to paris to make up for it. the standards are in elysium.
JUST NOW: our comrades at sciences po paris have started a gaza solidarity encampment! this university notably hosts a dual degree program with columbia.
Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.
Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.
Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.
In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.