Paris!!!!!!!!!!!......an unfinished piece...

The excitement conveyed by the title is no longer there. It doesn't take long to get used to things, yes even Paris. In the two weeks I've been here I've experienced a mixture of absolute delight, exhiliration, joy, amazement, bewilderness and weariness too. Although the last feeling is one which can't be entirely attributed to the city. There were times in the past two weeks that i felt like writing but i wasn't able to.Lets not go into the specifivs about why not suffice to say a few mundane techinical issues. And when i was sitting in front of the internet, I always thought well surely not now...lets wait for the right moment. Anyway i've really got used to writing and couldn't wait any longer. This is still not the "right moment" but lets see if I can do justice to the city.

I've seen quite a few cities from the view that is afforded when the plane circles around before beginning its final descent. Other than the Calcutta , Delhi and Bangalore I also got the chance to get a so to say bird's eye view of Istanbul thanks to the stop over flight. But none of them and I have to stress this none of them prepared me for what I would view when I was straining to see outside the window (I had the middle seat) once the seatbelts lights flickered on. The city looks absolutely amazing from the top. The entire layout was well to put it simply just different. It was enough to put life into me and to the rest of us travel weary souls (the jetlag and the waiting time in the Istanbul airport really gets to you

The first few days were absolutely thrilling. I got up by myself at 8 in the morning without an alarm (for me its an achievement). I took