paris, je t'aime

one of the many blogs i follow is the3six5. each day, a new writer posts, so it is 365 days by 365 people with 365 different points of view. it is really interesting and inspiring to see different writing styles and opinions from people around the world. today's post was really beautifully written, about the champs elysees in paris. my favourite paragraph: 


Standing on the Champs Elysées, be it down at Concorde or on top of the Arc du Triomphe, you know that you will go, but it will stay. You stand there exactly as many others did before, and that list is quite extraordinary as it goes from Napoleon to Santos-Dumont, from Hitler to De Gaulle, from Miguel Induráin to Zinedine Zidane. If you bypass the bright logos and the massive shop windows, the place looks pretty much the same today as it did back then, like an old picture frozen in time.


having spent most of a summer in paris when i was younger, i really relate to Mediavilla's description. i always wondered about the events that have happened there before, wondering who has stood in the exact place that i was standing that second. i think there is something really special about spending time in a city that has so much history. 

read the rest of his post at http://the3six5.posterous.com/february-9-2011-adrian-mediavilla