Sometimes it’s important to disconnect and to live in the actual world. Versus the virtual. Those who are social media savvy know exactly what I mean! Feeling the need to connect myself with the living, in the form of my friends and family, I took off a few weeks and flew to New York.
First stop, my favorite place of carousing and chaos… Soho! Freedom tower in the distance.
Many of our days in New York City, with my Italian in tow, were spent in central park, beneath the sun, picnicing with friends or lost within a heavenly gray mist.
I could not wait to explore my old neighborhood, the Lower East Side, bustling with creative energy on every corner. Once a downtown girl… always.
These last few weeks were filled with memories. Precious time spent with my mom, both in the countryside where I was raised and in the city. Copious amounts of culture in the form of ballet, theatre, art, food… THIS is the New York I miss. But in the end, when I ran from one rendezvous to the next, catching up on lives from across the sea, wondering how I had managed to live for so long is this frenetic city, it dawned on me. A city is indeed a composition of it’s offerings but, most importantly, it’s people. And many of these people remain very dear to me.
Already, I look forward to the next visit. While happy to call Paris home.
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Sounds like you had a lovely visit…great photos Kasia! For some reason NYC always seems so much more frantic than Paris to me…I’m sure it’s not but it can feel that way.
NYC definitely is more frantic than most cities in the world, with the exception of Tokyo perhaps. Often that chaos is what I miss in Paris.
Great blog, I have just discovered it today and will be following. Have recently come back from Paris and want to go back as soon as possible
Glad you enjoyed your trip to Paris! What were your highlights? Let me know next time you come to visit!
I especially loved strolling around both Montmartre and Montparnasse Cemeteries as well as just walking along the river! Also really enjoyed the Pompidou Centre. I have been looking at the bags you design and they are very original, might get one at some point!
Great photos Kasia! I loved following your journey through instagram. I’m heading back for 10 days at the end of July and am SO excited!! Glad you still are in love with NYC as well! x
Have a wonderful time in NYC! (Hard not to!) We must have a NYC night in Paris soon!!
Great shots! Really can see where the heart of a downtown girl lies. Got my eye on your blog now.
I know so well that strangeness of where we live now and where we were before… happy to be there but also so happy to get ‘home’… Paris and New York… must be about the best combination of all… xv
Yes, there is no place quite like New York… and Paris. Together.