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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)
Nov 12, 2024
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like many baristas my age, i had an affinity for french pop music as a highschooler, particularly "yé-yé", which was what they called 60's pop! i was down with a bad case of main character syndrome (a common symptom of being a teenager) so i loved the drama of it all - chic and taboo like smoking secret cigarettes 🙄 i was also taking french in school - i was terrible at it but being able to vaguely understand the lyrics helped me to appreciate it even more.
flash fwd a few years & i was finally presented with the opportunity to travel to france!!! i never ever thought i'd get to see paris but the stars aligned and i spent a week there in summer 2023 with my fiancé and my dad (which was particularly special bc i never get to travel with him) 🥺
it was incredibly romantic (despite the lack of air conditioning...wtf europe) and i had also gotten my garçon into the french music i'd loved as a teen so our visit was soundtracked by the likes of françoise hardy, jacqueline taïeb, jacques brel, sylvie vartan, jacques dutronc, jane birkin, serge gainsbourg (melody nelson holds up if i pretend i don't know what he's saying!!) etc 🥰
the video i linked is one of the only videos i took while in paris, and it's possibly my fav video i've taken ever - the little girl i accidentally caught dancing in front of the eiffel tower makes me smile every time i watch it.
Mar 10, 2025
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Listen, I may be generationally poor, single, and cursed with low, Irish cheekbones but I have the best friends in the entire world who jet me to Europe when I'm feeling low. I'm going for like 72 hours and that's enough time to get fucked up at this dive bar near Moulin Rouge where the bouncer is strapped with a machine gun with my friends and eat a croissant.
Mar 1, 2024
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food:
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Feb 22, 2024
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