You say you want a revolution ?
Well, you know, we all want to change the world.
Well, you know, we all want to change the world.
Exactly four and a half years ago to the very day (Boxing Day 2002) I turned up here for the first time with a suitcase in one hand and my 12 year old daughter in the other. It was 22:30 at night and dark and I was tired and hungry and lost. I was also desolate and running away from the most miserable Christmas I'd ever known in my entire life. Most of you probably know why. I had no idea how I was going to face the next 5 days let alone the next 5 months or the next 5 years.
I booked into a small hotel just across the road from here and sat there all night trying to plan a future I couldn't even begin to contemplate.
So you can only imagine my joy at turning up here again 3 days ago in a mood of celebration with a nearly 17 year old daughter to keep me company and a Parisian summer in the air.
This place and these people saved my life that Christmas. I'd always loved the French (as those of you who know a little of my history will realise) but to say that they lifted my spirirts would be an understatement. They re-built me somehow and I still don't know how they did it.
So - Vive la Republique,Vive la Revolution and Vive la France.
(And if that Monument looks familiar it is - indeed - a smaller version of the Statue Of Liberty).
I booked into a small hotel just across the road from here and sat there all night trying to plan a future I couldn't even begin to contemplate.
So you can only imagine my joy at turning up here again 3 days ago in a mood of celebration with a nearly 17 year old daughter to keep me company and a Parisian summer in the air.
This place and these people saved my life that Christmas. I'd always loved the French (as those of you who know a little of my history will realise) but to say that they lifted my spirirts would be an understatement. They re-built me somehow and I still don't know how they did it.
So - Vive la Republique,Vive la Revolution and Vive la France.
(And if that Monument looks familiar it is - indeed - a smaller version of the Statue Of Liberty).
And if you want money for people with minds that hate,
All I can tell you is brother you'll have to wait.
Don't you know it's gonna be ......alright.
All I can tell you is brother you'll have to wait.
Don't you know it's gonna be ......alright.
6 comments:
I don't know about what happened to you but I am glad that you are OK now and that you had fun! I wish I could go to Paris but I HATE airplanes. LOL.
Mailyn,
Swim!
M.
Pointless Nostalgic like Jamie Cullum?
Sweet! Neva been to Paris but that is probably one of the cities I'm dying to visit.
Cheers Mate!
I had to google Jamie Cullum to find out who he is. That either makes me very cool or very uncool (The former I think).
Paris is also very cool but the title of "The Greatest City On Earth" still goes to Barcelona as far as I'm concerned.
And if you like France then Toulouse is probably my favourite city : it really is a beautiful place. I got caught up in an outdoor techno disco there last week (in the middle of the central square).
M.
I'm so not jealous right now... *sigh*
Paris is amazing. Loved it the first time I got there. Wish I could go back...
But right now, I'm heading off to the ladies room and then back to my desk... doing a good job here is like wetting yourself in a dark suit: you get a warm feeling, but nobody else notices anything...
Oh, and don't feel deprived just because you don't have an iPod - I don't either... I use my old and very faithful Creative MuVo mp3-player! available in a store near you! :D
I'm going to get an iPod if I've ever got any spare money but I keep spending it all.
Now I want to go to Berlin : I seem to have two weeks spare in August.
That's 4 days at a hippy festival in mid-Wales (in a fucking Wig-Wam : how did I get talked into this crap?) and then 9 days to myself (no daughter for a change).
Maybe Amsterdam on the way home ?
I'm in work too. I'll start taking it all seriously tomorrow I promise.
M.
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