City of Light: the first of many posts
Jul. 16th, 2005 06:17 pmI will never get this entry right. There's so much I want to remember, too much to record.
It has been the most amazing week. Some time ago,![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
larians decided I needed a treat for my birthday. He remembered me saying that I had seen Cairo and Venice, Kathmandu and San Francisco, but the nearest I had been to Paris was the ringroad outside it. So last week, I met the giant next door.
As an example of that famous Parisian unfriendliness reserved for les anglais (and expected to be extra vehement after all that Olympics business) our landlady was waiting to greet us with a bottle of Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2003, 'because it is your birthday...' apparently, though the wine will taste good whenever, it will be at its best 3 years from now. It sits in our wine rack, waiting. Join me in 2008, and help me drink it!
I now recount my hols, for myself more than for any readers. This will take a couple of posts, and is really of little interest to others. Strange that I should need so many words for Paris, when Scotland needed so few; But I find Paris is Idea and Scotland is Awe. Idea we can speak of forever, but who can speak of Awe?
( Saturday night; Born to be Wined... )
( Notre-Dame )
It has been the most amazing week. Some time ago,
larians decided I needed a treat for my birthday. He remembered me saying that I had seen Cairo and Venice, Kathmandu and San Francisco, but the nearest I had been to Paris was the ringroad outside it. So last week, I met the giant next door. As an example of that famous Parisian unfriendliness reserved for les anglais (and expected to be extra vehement after all that Olympics business) our landlady was waiting to greet us with a bottle of Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2003, 'because it is your birthday...' apparently, though the wine will taste good whenever, it will be at its best 3 years from now. It sits in our wine rack, waiting. Join me in 2008, and help me drink it!
I now recount my hols, for myself more than for any readers. This will take a couple of posts, and is really of little interest to others. Strange that I should need so many words for Paris, when Scotland needed so few; But I find Paris is Idea and Scotland is Awe. Idea we can speak of forever, but who can speak of Awe?
( Saturday night; Born to be Wined... )
( Notre-Dame )
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