In between-ness, conflicting emotions, divided points of view, also form an important part of our experience of place. The emotions that spaces around us produce are at times not as clearcut as positive and negative – and this has certainly been the case for this blogger in navigating and trying to discover London and Paris….
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‘Emotive’ Geography (1) : London, Millenium Bridge and St. Paul’s
The places that we live, the world around us, is continuously drawing out different emotional responses: peace, contentment, inspiration, anger, security .. and insecurity, and different psychological dispositions: willpower, pride, confidence or the opposite. I’ve been thinking about how different parts of Paris and London evoke particular emotional responses and how they affect – positively…
One Hundred random things about London and Paris…
Grateful graduate project reasons 48-147 Paris and London make for great contexts in which to study. Beyond the computer screen, there are so many small things that have made my experience of pursuing studies here manageable – and an all round enjoyable experience. I am immensely and continuously grateful to be here. Here are just…
London, first things first
So, it has taken over a month to get around to creating a post about the grad student experience offered by London partly out of paralysing procrastination and partly because I’ve felt the need to have a little bit of credible experience of the city and overcome my prejudices about London. In short, I’ve tried…
Baron Haussman, Space
Grateful Graduate Project: Reason to be grateful 7 of 365 Paris-Vision from Ketchup Mayonnaise on Vimeo. I am grateful for the part of Baron Haussman’s legacy that has resulted in her wide streets and beautiful boulevards. The video (above) provides a glimpse of the accessible, open spaces that create the impression of a city…
Opéra
Grateful Graduate Project: Reason to be Grateful 5 of 365 Thanks to the emailing list that one can subscribe to on the website of the Opéra National de Paris (click here), it is possible to purchase opera tickets at student friendly prices. The seats may not necessarily be the very best and one has to…
A year between the Seine and the Thames
So, the past few months have been a bureaucratic roller coaster ride: waiting in long queues to submit forms, returning to submit missing papers from dossiers, holding the line for the next available operator, clicking next on online application websites, paying fees for everything imaginable under the sun. I am not completely out of the…
Paris here, there, everywhere: Traces of the city beyond its bounds
After the annual takeover of the city by wandering tribes of summertime tourists, the locals are reclaiming the public squares, streets and métro platforms of Paris. Where tourists, impressed by the beauty of Paris, would have got away with sauntering at ease through the sparsely populated streets of the city and glided, unfettered, onto most…
From Paris to Rabat
I had my first tantalising taste of Morocco when I visited its capital, Rabat, a few weeks ago. I ate more food than I believed possible, bargained for gifts to bring back to Paris, took long early evening walks and drank several cups of ‘nous nous’ (a special version of Moroccan Cappuccino). Traces of the…
Saint Germain and Pont des Arts in the Morning
It is a rare view of the city to see early morning packages get delivered, feet shuffle slowly from and to our different versions of life in Paris and as an unwritten code of civility forces people to respectfully board on and off the métro with little hassle caused or experienced. This is the strange…
Anon's Paris 