I have a thing for big cities.
I wasn't born in a one so I really cannot understand my obsession!
I was raised in a house, about 20min away from a city of a small country. That meant lots of treets, flowers, the sea about half an hour away, the mountains 40minutes away.
So normally I should grow and feel weird in a big city full of skyscrapers, subways, lots of people etc.
When I went to study in the UK and spent time in London I just, magically felt that everything around me fitted me. To who I was, to what made me confortable.
I loved the underground, the traffic, lots of people, big buildings, the parks in the city, drinking my latte as I was rushing to catch the underground to go to class. Sounds masochistic I know but I loved it!
Plus, I don't like the "closed-society" mindset that there is where I live. Everybody knows what happens in your life and so on. God!
So three months ago I went for the first time in New York! The apocalypse!
I can still feel the sense in West Village (any way to live there), my skin burning as I was sunbathing in Central Park, drinking my cappuccino in the MoMA cafe, walking in the isles of Guggenheim looking at the Zaha Hadid works, having bruch in a cafe in the Village and outside raining, watching Little Children at the Angelica in Soho and eating Peanut butter cups (my new obsession)...all those little things that you can do in a big city and make you feel part of it in a strange way.
Then I went to Paris with work.
Paris was different. More romantic, less "big".
I walked in the streets listening music from my mp3. As it was my first time there, I was so glad when I saw the Eiffel Tower (although after NY everything looked so "small"), the Louvre, the Tuiliere garden. I spent an amazing night at the Pompidou, saw a fashion show, saw Patti Smith performing 5m away from me, met Dee Dee Bridgewater, sang with Youssou D' Our....an experience that will never forget.
You see, in a bigh city you feel that if you work hard enough, if you are positive enough you can make things happen!
So, I guess that's why I like Big Cities
I wasn't born in a one so I really cannot understand my obsession!
I was raised in a house, about 20min away from a city of a small country. That meant lots of treets, flowers, the sea about half an hour away, the mountains 40minutes away.
So normally I should grow and feel weird in a big city full of skyscrapers, subways, lots of people etc.
When I went to study in the UK and spent time in London I just, magically felt that everything around me fitted me. To who I was, to what made me confortable.
I loved the underground, the traffic, lots of people, big buildings, the parks in the city, drinking my latte as I was rushing to catch the underground to go to class. Sounds masochistic I know but I loved it!
Plus, I don't like the "closed-society" mindset that there is where I live. Everybody knows what happens in your life and so on. God!
So three months ago I went for the first time in New York! The apocalypse!
I can still feel the sense in West Village (any way to live there), my skin burning as I was sunbathing in Central Park, drinking my cappuccino in the MoMA cafe, walking in the isles of Guggenheim looking at the Zaha Hadid works, having bruch in a cafe in the Village and outside raining, watching Little Children at the Angelica in Soho and eating Peanut butter cups (my new obsession)...all those little things that you can do in a big city and make you feel part of it in a strange way.
Then I went to Paris with work.
Paris was different. More romantic, less "big".
I walked in the streets listening music from my mp3. As it was my first time there, I was so glad when I saw the Eiffel Tower (although after NY everything looked so "small"), the Louvre, the Tuiliere garden. I spent an amazing night at the Pompidou, saw a fashion show, saw Patti Smith performing 5m away from me, met Dee Dee Bridgewater, sang with Youssou D' Our....an experience that will never forget.
You see, in a bigh city you feel that if you work hard enough, if you are positive enough you can make things happen!
So, I guess that's why I like Big Cities
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