Paris feels subdued. Although nobody really wants to admit it, this city might actually start missing its tourists.
Whenever did we have Fashion week and Roland Garros the same week and both virtually went unnoticed! These events are huge happenings for France's capital and even if you don't care about fashion or know how to play tennis you can't help noticing the extra excitement in the air as the city's social scene along with the traffic step up into 5th gear.
Unlike New York and London’s city centres, Paris’s heart continues to beat in every quartier, Covid or not, and whether people work from home or not. This city is made of a mosaic of buoyant villages. The risk of Paris becoming deserted is nil.
Nevertheless, this melting pot with a meli-melo of cultures and races, does get an extra buzz of the sheer quantity of people running around all year long. Paris' tourist season has no real beginning and end to it, the locals have just learnt to absorb the masses and live with it.
The local residents - forever complaining how overrun their city is - never quite realized how much they had adapted to their visitors' pace. All of a sudden, we can start navigating in a lower gear and it seems unnatural!
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