NY-Paris-NY

A week in Paris...

What can I tell you... Family, friends, small dinners, shopping and more shopping, Paris, amazing Paris...

Sandro, Maje, Isabel, Vanessa, Iro, Manoush, Zadig, Noir Kennedy, Gas, Almost Famous, 58M, AB33, Swildens, Bash, etc... Yes I saw all of them.


A real pilgrimage, but let me reassure you (and especially my banker who follows this blog on a daily basis) there were some I just admired, as the dollars is slowly and surely still collapsing!

For the fashion summary, you will have to wait, but Paris it is also all this...

Its roofs...


Its fab areas, so different, St Germain, Le Marais are among my favourites...




And there are all the little extra things... The ones you cannot find in NY (yes yes there are some!)

No? You don't think so, well let me show you...

The Velibs, or how you can rent bicycles by the hour everywhere in Paris.


The patisseries, and they are so good, people are even queuing for them!


And in no specific order...
The tube, so much cleaner, the buildings which, because they are smaller let us see more of the sky, the museums, the Eiffel tower which shines like a diamond at night, to have a real expresso, the brasseries and small cafes, and above all the feeling that people are taking the time to enjoy life, un je-ne-sais-quoi...



Oh I know... I am so French!!

One year already...

That's it, I have celebrated my one year anniversary in NY last December.
I am already in my second year.
On 17th December 2006 I was moving to Manhattan, and a new adventure was starting. It was amazing and tough but also a bit chaotic at the beginning. What a journey!
I won't bore you and sum up the whole year, so I leave you some photos to look at instead.

The working world!... And the encounter of the cubicle -office, the feeling of being Melanie Griffith in Working Girl (without the shoulder pads!!)


A few weeks later, less grey...


Winter, the snow, Central Park, the cold, the cold, and did I mention it gets cold, very cold and for a few months. No need to have a sping wardrobe, you go from winter to summer in just a few days!


But summer lasts about 6 months, and the sun shines most days and therefore you just don't complain... In fact you do because it is unbearably hot in August and next year you will buy more sandals, oh and also because of the humidity! Well you start to love AC, like every American!


NY it is also...
Skyscrapers...



Townhouses


And some billboards


NY, or I should says Manhattan, an island of 59 km2 and 1,537,195 people


New York it is all this and many other things, I will post more photos soon!

According to E.B.White, there are three New York; the first one, the one of the man or woman born here. They take the city as it is for what it is, and accept its size and its noise as a normal and inevitable thing
Then there is the one of the suburbian, he works in NY but that's it, he leaves it every evening. And finally there is the NY of the emigrant who comes searching for something.
Three cities, the best one being the last one, where passion and purpose meet.



What about you are you tempted?

And what about you?

This week end I saw this article in a US magazine and I asked myself the same question.

"What would you be if you were not what you are?" Yes what would I do if I wasn't in my current job? Hmmm... Deep thinking... Yes I am frowning...



I have to look for the celebrities' answers to find some inspiration and I end up a little bit disappointed.

The only few I find amusing are, first of all, Sir Paul McCartney as an English teacher. I would have been at his class every day!! Then there is Courtney Love as a designer, help us!! I think fate did a good deed, I love Hole but I can't stand her outfits!
And the winner is... Karl! Ah Karl! He always has the right answer, he was born to be who he is, Karl! Such an evidence! What did you expect, that he was going to say he wanted to have his own bakery?

What about you, what would you be if you were not what you are?


PS: next week I will ask you another deep question (seen on a mug) "How old would you be if you did not know how old you are?" No? Ok I won't!

1... 2... 3... 4...

Tell me that you love me more"
Feist


What were you doing on 4th October 2003? Do you remember?

On 4th October I said "Yes" to my favourite Scot, and 4 years later, all I want to do is to to go back to that day and to remember this amazing journey, all the emotions, the shared happiness, the Divine Idylle...


So today I spent my day dreaming (ok and I did work too!!) because 4th October is a very special day, it is not just like everyday...

Another blog...

It has been a while that I had been thinking about it, I was looking with envy at some of them but I wasn't ready to cross the line yet... Exactly like when I would spend hours in front of 58M windows and look at their shoes but leave empty handed...
But with all the support from everybody, those who wanted to read my stories and those who just wanted me to find a hobby, or to know my shopping addresses, that's it, I am doing the big jump, I am tackling the crazy task... And I will tell you the story of a Parisian girl in New York, my encounters, my shopping trips, my moods and feelings...
Ok reveilles toi, je commence...
PS: a big thank you to Marie for her illustration