I keep daydreaming, or more like night dreaming, given the time at the moment, of France.

Of Paris.

Of late night walks. Of feeling like I literally was in Midnight in Paris. If you, like myself, are a fellow Francophile, or romantic, then you have to go see it. Woody Allen has so perfectly captured the essence of Paris that is … Paris.

Just the other day, when asked about my trip, I found myself struggling to find the right words to say about Paris.What could possibly do it justice? And how to verbalize that?

Which brings me to … How can and does one describe Paris? When Paris is just … Paris. In all of its stunning glory.

This is what so moved me while watching Owen Wilson roam the Parisian streets by night … Woody Allen was able to evoke in feeling what words fail about the city. In fact, when my mother and I finished watching the movie (sidenote: we were out when it started to rain, so we thought what better than to watch Midnight in Paris in Paris!) it was 12:30 a.m. and I was so energized to get out and … move.

See even more. That’s what was so great about seeing it in Paris — it gave me further inspiration to get out and explore. Maman wasn’t too sure about my “let’s follow where we feel” and the “put the map away, who needs a map of Paris when we’re in Paris for the 11th time?!”. But to her credit, she stuck by my free spirited, mapless urges.

Really, isn’t it just so much more exciting to not know where you’re going and see where you end up? Plus this is rather easy to do in a city like Paris, where you’re never more than a block and a half away from a metro stop. If all else fails, get on le metro.

Granted, there are still many places far and wide I have yet to experience, yet somehow I know, can safely say Paris has captured and will continue to hold a part of my being that no other city can touch. It’s those past lives coming back to haunt me, I’m telling you.

And perhaps the gentle calling of home I feel sitting in St.Chapelle. The silence of history and the memory of what came before, in the midst of  here and now.