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A dérive in Paris [photojournal]

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I'm not one of those people who is a full-blown Francophile, but there are lots of things that attract me to France.  I don't speak even speak French, but I'm really into French words.  Probably my favourite is dérive.  The other is flâneur.


 Anything I could tell you about psychogeography is going to be crudely summarised, so you can read more about that here.  Go forth and read.  While you're there, read this.

 So on my first day in Paris I was hyped to go to the Louvre and look at the Mona Lisa in a room with 200+ people, but I got there half an hour before they opened and the line was already so long that people were selling bottles of water.  The weather was perfect, and I decided that spending most of the day inside, after spending hours in a line, wasn't the way I was supposed to spend it.  Instead, it was a day to relish my inner flâneur.  Here are some pictures I took while I did this.














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A lover of things whimsical and mysterious, I've packed my belongings and set out in search of monsters and magic. I love sea monsters on maps, climbing mountains and the bump when the plane lands.

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