ahhh...paris....

how can one not love this city?  every corner you turn there is something beautiful to look at.  if it is not a building, it is the people, if not, it is a food display or a museum, un magasin... so many beautiful things...

and the people are nice.  yes, you used to hear that parisians had this difficult and unpleasant attitude but each time i go back, i find them nicer and nicer.  perhaps is it because i am french canadian and they find my accent ''mignon''?

or perhaps it is my own attitude as i am growing fonder and fonder of paris with each trip and paris loves me back in return??

i find that it has an ''amour-propre'' that is unmatched anywhere except perhaps montreal.  it is a city proud of what it is and flaunting it for all to enjoy.  and not only happy to sits on what it has, it finds new ways to enjoy it even more: la parade des rollers, the ferris wheel at the foot of champ-elysées, velib, paris-plage, bateaux-mouche, tango sur les quais de la seine, you name it!

for food lovers, paris is a paradise.  restaurants, cafés. bistros, bars...food halls, markets, shops... wine bars, wine shops, wine tastings.  cooking schools.  they have it all and every day there is something happening somewhere.

this is a photo i took quickly at a red light from the back of my taxi, how can you not want to be there?  ahh paris....