All of my European tours over the past five years have begun and ended in Paris, and each journal documenting those tours, including this one, have several entries on my days in Paris. In the hopes of avoiding too much redundancy in the Paris entries, I’ve often tried to highlight some new perspective or events that seem memorable enough to document. This weeklong stretch before returning to the US was filled with routine chores, catching up on the journal and long walks through some of my favorite quartiers of Paris. It was a week filled with a bit of nostalgia for I place I’ve not yet left, and with thoughts of when I might return.
Place du Panthéon - surrounded by the Panthéon, the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the Sainte-Geneviève Library - I imagined dialog balloons filled with serious thoughts and big ideas
In the Louvre Courtyard. I originally thought the pattern on the museum building was due to the sun and clouds, but as I got closer I saw that it was a pattern of light reflected by the Pyramide du Louvre
Susan CarpenterTo Kathleen JonesThanks Kathleen - I was pretty amazed when I saw the pyramid reflected in the building and building reflected in the pyramid. A bit mystical- maybe I should write a book :) Reply to this comment 11 months ago
Kirsten KaarsooThe irises will always remind me of the bike tour I have just had through France. There were so many of them in lots of different colours. Reply to this comment 11 months ago
