Paris was my last stop in my November 2018 travels. It was the only city I was truly nervous about. I had tried learning a little bit of French through an app, or watching a couple French films. But it definitely felt the most foreign to me of places I’d visited. That language barrier was the main source of nerves. I remember thinking on the train from London to Paris that perhaps I had made a mistake in adding on Paris to my trip. I was tired and worn out. My body felt off from the change in my usual diet.

From the moment I stepped out of Gare du Nord and saw the streets of Paris I knew I was in love. The nerves were still there, but even more powerful were the butterflies of excitement. Upon my return from my trip friends and family asked which city was the best, and I truly couldn’t pick one. But I have decided that Paris was the most mesmerizing. Because it is so different than anywhere else I’d traveled, I marveled the most at everything from the architecture to the brasseries to the people moving about around me. I loved it all.

xxo