Day 26: La Bastille et La Défense

I thought about it all day. I remember counting down the days two or three months before the trip. And now here we are, one year later. Every hour I kept saying, a year ago, we were there! A year ago, we were landing! A year ago we were already at the airport! A year ago we were already taking photos in La Défense! I could tell my friends were a bit annoyed by this, but I knew they missed it as well.

A year ago, I woke up at 6am, I was at the airport by 7:30am and at 9am I was already on the plane (between these last two we managed to take a photo with a famous football player. A year later, today, we managed to meet an even famous football player from the same team, the world is funny). When we arrived, I could smell that humid and Parisian scent filling up my lungs. As soon as we arrived we immediately went to our hostel rooms in Maurice Ravel (one of the worst experiences of this trip, I'll explain why as I post blogs), two or three people in each room. I changed and there we went, off to the métro de Paris, directly to la Bastille.

We hopped to McDonald's, hopped to Starbucks and then we took another subway to la Défense. I had never been there and, honestly, I didn't even know what it was or what existed there. I was dazzled with the modern buildings, they were so aesthetically beautiful. The fact that Paris is so symmetrical, every monument being so close to the other, almost in a straight line, it's a quality that pleases me even more. We can see the l'Arc du Triomphe from la Défense, isn't that amazing?

Can't you see me so happy radiant?

Paris, tu me manques beaucoup.

Bisou, bisou *

* All photgraphs were taken by me.