As educational as people-watching can be--and as incontournables as cultural sites like the Louvre and Pompidou are--, the real delight when living in Paris is finding a spot that seems to belong to you alone. When you turn a corner in the Marais and come across a quiet courtyard where no motos or English twangs can be heard, you suddenly feel like you and Paris share a delicious secret.Walk down a crowded park's ivy-covered steps into a deserted garden, and you'll feel as triumphant as the Tatin sisters must have felt upon tasting their first upside-down apple pie. What could be more satisfying, other than sharing your secret place with an appreciative moitié?
Lucy Gutteridge as Mary Lennox and Colin Firth as Colin Craven. [Online image] 1987.
