Lately I've been thinking a lot about travel. I've found that I am constantly enamored with both France (Paris mostly) and New York City. While all of Europe interests me I find myself reading books set in Paris, watching movies set in Paris or about famous people from Paris. The same goes for New York. Although I feel I should mention that part one of the movies set in New York is Sex and The City (but common, who doesn't want to be Carrie Bradshaw).
The latest book I read that was set in Paris was, "Paris My Sweet". I picked it up at a second hand bookstore near my college. I was drawn to it because of the title and the cover. It looks like a total fluff girly girl chick lit book. And it mostly lives up to it's cover. But beyond that it talks about Paris and the food, mostly the sweets. This book only deepened my desire to go to the "city of light and dark chocolate", if not for the beautiful scenery, then for the sweets. The author was even nice enough to put a list of bakeries the heroin visits in the back of the book (both in Paris and New York, oh right, did I mention it's set in both places? My heaven in a book!).
One movie that always makes me crave Paris is "Midnight in Paris". To start off Owen Wilson is just a cutie. On top of that he is sent back into the 1920's in Paris. Surrounded by the great writers and artists of the time he finally gets out of the writers block he's been having and writes a phenomenal book about his experiences. It's a great movie, but it goes beyond that and transports you to a place and time where things were getting good, great timeless artists were all around and you could go to a party with Dali and Hemingway.
I don't know if I'll ever make it to Paris (New York, however, is a definite possibility), but if I ever do there is so much that I want to see and experience I might just have to spend my whole life there.
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