Not another metro trip: Director's Cut

I did it again! Living in Paris means you get visits all the time from all over Europe. This week I got to spend a wonderful and frozen Saturday hanging around The Lady (that is, the Eiffel Tower), because my dear Swedish friend Anders needed to take 500 pictures of the tower. He said he would wrap his whole bedroom with all the pictures he took. In any case, I couldn't miss the chance to record once again the metro trip that I love so much, but this time with the image rotated! And that's the video you have above.

Since I passed by once again later that day, I decided to record the trip again with the night lights, to show you how beautiful The Lady looks in the evening. However, as a very bad film director that I am, I didn't realize that, since the train was illuminated in the inside, the image would be very bad. Anyway, I upload the second video too, you will appreciate the French woman sitting in front of me and paying attention to what I was doing. She didn't understand a bit, but... I owed this to you. Enjoy!

PS: I promise you, yesterday Paris was Siberia...

I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles... Don't I?

That’s what happens when you don’t update your blog for one month… You have way too many things to talk about!

I have been preparing this very long post about Barcelona vs Paris, but I will leave it for another day. Now I will dedicate a few words to you about Parisian weather.

Thanks to the Internet, I am following Catalan news, and it seems you are suffering a very very very bad cold wave in Catalunya. I hear expressions like “Siberian weather”, “emergency plans activated”, etc. etc. Even today somebody told me that it’s not comparable, that humid coldness (like in Barcelona) is much worse than dry coldness (like in Paris).

My dear loyal readers: no. In Paris we have right now between 5 and 10 ºC LESS than in Barcelona. For the last 72h we have NOT been over 0ºC. For the next four days we have a snow forecast, in the city of Paris! I say this because usually in winter it snows in Île-de-France (Paris area), but snow doesn’t settle inside the city. Well, it will starting tomorrow! And that’s exceptional for Paris. So no, it’s worse here.

In any case, if you look at the picture… It will be beautiful! And I will stay home this weekend… Mediterranean-Uruguayan people can’t take this weather for 3 months… And for your information, I’m counting my days until April!