Getting ready to blog about Paris is not easy. I have about 1,500 pictures to sort and lots of stories to tell. This City that was a the top of my list of Places to Travel (I have had a top 10 for a long time). Everything about Paris is amazing to me: the language, the history, the culture, the wine, the FOOD!! There is no other place in the world that combines so many things that amaze me and want to try at the same time. I had been trying to go to Europe for a while, but I always ended up going somewhere else for less time and money. Finally, the trip became a reality and luckily for us, I had a childhood friend living in Paris who offered to host us for as long as we needed. I wanted to go even if we didn't have a place to stay but we would have probably stayed for 3 nights since most of the hotels are so expensive. We decided to stay for 5 nights in Paris. The longest stay of the 6 Cities that we visited.
I started french classes on Saturday mornings a couple of months before the trip. I learned enough to say hello and thank you! I really want to learn french and I can understand a little, but I get ashamed of my poor pronunciation and don't speak much. The hardest part of learning another language is to take the risk of making a fool of yourself. On the other hand, my boyfriend did not speak a single word of french, but he was NOT afraid to try to say something. He even made a friend while we were visiting the Versailles Palace. Not just a friend but A french friend!!! My friend told us a few basic phrases and we were ready for our adventure. I think that was the best part of the trip: the challenge to get everything that we needed and not getting lost a single time. Of course we always asked if they spoke Spanish or English and the French were nice to us for trying to "speak" french first. Either that or they just wanted us to stop killing their beautiful language.
I recently found this video of Paris made of 2,000 photographs that I thought it is the best thing I've ever seen done of Paris. Pictures are always nice, a video is usually longer than I can stand, but this was the perfect mix of images and movement. Plus it is short and you get to see most of the monuments of the City.
Read the photographer's interview here
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