2 days in Paris

here I am back in Paris with 2 days left and a ton of writing to do on the rest of Italy and London. I spent the last few days meeting friends in Paris on bicycle, racing before any impending rain. Surprisingly, the French are kinder to cyclists than to their fellow drivers. Yesterday i was back in Montmatre, along the Rue de Abbèsses, a really charming street full of cafes and restos and had dinner at the Relais Gascon, a southern french restaurant serving huge salads with foie gras and chervrè chaud( hot goat cheese)and in the evening i visited my friend Berengère at her new apartment in the Latin Quartier near Sorbonne. I watched Paris, Je T'aime, a 2006 film about love in Paris which featured a bunch of big names in 5 minute stories. not very original, but it is really potent in showing the randomness and going ons in Paris, with those 18th/19th century facades as background. the film made me feel like i was part of all that, desptie all the strangeness, it made me feel like i belonged with all these people buying their bread, falling in love, arguing, smoking, feeling lonely, being alive.