traînou, for purposes of impossible comparison.
walking back towards the house.
la défense.
la grande arche de la défense.
bécon-les-bruyères station.
la gare saint-lazare.
le musée de la légion d'honneur.
le musée d'orsay.
(the only photograph of 'artwork' included here - i photographed quite a lot of other things but ... well, too lazy.)
view from sacré-cœur.
another view. (and they follow - must i label?)
just outside the anvers métro stop. there's an excellent crêpe stand a bit to the left...
for reference - the rest of the pictures except the very last are all from père lachaise cemetery. i did do a lot more walking but my camera swam down to the bottom of my bag after père lachaise. and of course, a lot of that walking involved the galeries lafayette and 92€ bottles of eau de parfum. i won't lie.
frédéric chopin. yes, that frédéric chopin.
i wished i had a lighter to relight the ones that had gone out.
yes, that édith piaf. the weather was almost too appropriately sunny for a cemetery.
makes for good photography, however.
la gare d'austerlitz. no exterior photos, as i approached from a different angle than usual, but oh well.
the train at night made me motionsick. alone, seeing nothing in the window except my reflection, i felt awful, because i couldn't see what we were passing - and sleeping wasn't an option, as i was alone and carrying three bags.
but in the end, it's all good. i bought: 100ml of the new dior perfume, a real madrid t-shirt at the adidas boutique on the champs-élysées, a poster of the bridges of paris in black and white from 1991 [the year i was born], my phone, and a rather large tin of prince wladimir tea. went shopping and wandering with a friend of my father's from algiers, and a parisian university student who happens to share the same name with my aunt. she's quite charming. my aunt and the friend, that is. we waltzed around every shop we could find, spraying perfume everywhere. hah. what children.
and banana + nutella crêpes are the reason i live.
it's good. i've put up tons of posters (including what you sent me,
007hanna !!! ♥) and l'équipe and magazine cutouts in my room, and i'll photograph that and my phone later on. but for now, let this suffice.
~~Anissa