Paris

In the 2006 I was in Paris by a estrange journey. I didn’t know much about the city or even France, but I love the place. The energy of the streets, the love for the cinema, the old theatres, the Barrio Latino, the sex museum, the Louvre museum, the Moulin Rouge, etc. Everything thing with its particular detail. I don’t know, it’s hard to explain. Julio Cortázar explained very well, when he talked about the city of lights, he said that the streets were very inspiring and when he walked around the Sena river he received a lot of inspiration to write his poems. Anyway, Paris is the city of the greatest writers, musicians and filmmakers, like Rimbaud, Edith Piaff, Jean Luc Goddard, Louis Malle, Agnes Varda, Jean Pierre Melville, Paul Verlaine, and the city where great writers decided to live like Ernest Hemingway, Alejandra Pizarnik, Oscar Wilde or actors like Klaus Kinski, or musicians like Nina Simone or Jarvis Cocker. Anyway, France is a perfect place for the artist because the French people always want new waves of art. In the streets and the subways there are always very good artists and they got great festivals like the Rock in Sena, with many good bands. Other great characteristic of the city are its food and bars, with good coffee shops everywhere. The only inconvenient are the prices, all they are very expensive. On the other side, the streets have a strange mixture between graffitis and old classic styles with gorgeous sculptures.