just came back from my first trip to paris here is what i rec as a first timer who fucking crushed it • when parisians start speaking to you in french just stare at them like this 😃 and don't say shit
• the louvre-adjacent mcdonalds
• a thin black scarf
• being really brave at the top of the eiffel tower
• facetiming my dad on his birthday (if it is my dad's birthday while you're in paris) (nov 10th)
• only going to restaurants you will never recover from financially
• walking into any nightclub and buying the 12€ poppers
• accidentally almost saying "bonjour" to the first person you see in your neighborhood back in america (i'm cooked)
During covid, in the 6th arr. in Paris, a woman who used to own a children’s store opened a curiosity shop called La Boutique Fantasque. A few weeks ago, I stopped by and bought an ornamental cricket cage and a few yards of fabric with horses printed all over it. (Apparently it’s good luck to trap a single cricket and keep it in your kitchen.) She also sells specialty Christmas ornaments. Her instagram doesn’t really capture what she’s doing, I recommend visiting in person. If you email in advance, she’ll have a friend come translate for you. And while in Paris… why don’t you have dinner with Donatien Grau, who works at the Musee d’Orsay, at Voltaire, which is across from the Musee d’Orsay. He’s a local and it’s a locals’ restaurant, the only kind of restaurant I like. He’ll force you to order this salad he invented, it’s disgusting—salmon, uncooked mushrooms, avocado, slathered in some mystery white cream sauce—highly recommend the experience.
leaves you susceptible to dating someone for too long because they play a role rather than it being about who they are. if you go in open to every situation, it will play out as its supposed to naturally (sometimes with a little nudge)
go drink some right now it’s good for your body and skin and has magical healing properties when consumed at the right times. currently it’s helping me beat a hangover
