April 01

Les Rues De Paris

Posted by Madhu on April 1, 2014 in France, Paris, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge 2014 | 66 Comments

R is going to be away on an unexpected business trip to New Zealand at the end of ~~next~~ this month with colleagues, and having been given to understand in no uncertain terms that my accompanying him would be a distraction, I suddenly find myself with two weeks of free time and no real plans! The compulsive planner in me is in a tizzy about what to do with myself during his absence. Or rather where to go.

Remember that unlike most of you, we don’t enjoy favoured status among visitors and cannot travel without visas to most countries, the application process for which, without exception, can be convoluted and painful. The handful that do grant us papers on arrival are the ones I have no desire to visit in summer.

While I mull over my options, and hunt for deals (yes, that is one reason among others, why I have been off the radar for a while) here are streetscapes from a destination – at the opposite end of the spectrum from Calcutta – that I am so familiar with, and that I am sorely tempted to go back to!