PARIS. "A gruyère"

I've been living in Paris for 2 years now, and i'm faraway to know everything about this wonderful city, you need years and years to investigate it. It's my favorite city in France. What i like in this town is that all areas of the city are differents, so you can find the atmosphere that you want : you can find calm and tranquility when you leave the touristics streets of MontMartre, and then it's like you are in a village with private houses, paved streets and the sound of birds, alot of artists still leaving there. If you need mouvement and activities, go to the "grands magasins"area, which is very busy all the day, for clothes, it's a real Aladdin's cave, but you are tempt to spent a lot of money.For the night, the busy place is near Bastille, the place where thereare a lot bars and always people during the night but i prefer theoberkampf or Belleville area, with a lot of pop rock bars, it's moreunderground. When i have time, i like to go somewhere, randomly, and discover newlovely roads and places.You can find a special atmosphere in the morning "rue St Denis", it'snear a district named "le sentier", where there is a lot ofmanufacturer of tissue, so in this street, a lot of man are walkingwith a trolley and they're wanted to find some tissue to transport Ofshops in shops, and expect to recolt some money with that and thereare very pressing and they can knock you down. There is alwayssomething surprising when you stop on a bench and observe what happen.But for me, the most impressive is the beauty of the monument, inparticular the lenght of the Seine, everything is charge of history,and it's a so romantic to walk there in summer night.If i had to choose one monument, i'd choose "l'opéra Garnier", i've never see a ballet there, but i'd like so much,soon i hope. But few years ago, i've visited it, the atmosphere was very special,everything was so beautiful there, but the most was the stories the guide told us about a lot of legends like the phantom, the lake under the opera, and how it was at the great period.One thing that i'd like to do, was to go in the carriere, becauseParis is a real "gruyère", with a lot of underground passage, it'sforbidden to go there but if you ask to friends, you always findsomeone who know someone who went to a secret party there, soincredible!!Paris is the beautiful city who can surprise you when you aren't expected it!!!

Estelle