Night Owls in Paris

19:50 p.m. rue de Buci, Pars. 

21:29 p.m. Odeon, Pars.

22:15 p.m. rue de Seine, Pars.

Bonne nuit, Paris.

私が生まれて初めて経験した「海外」はパリ。

夜のメトロ駅から地上に上がる階段を昇りながら見上げた街灯の色が、
日本のそれとはずいぶんと違って、そして綺麗だと思ったことを今でも良く覚えてる。

20年の時が経ち・・・・

14回も訪問した今、パリが私を20年前のあの時のように楽しませてくれることはもう無いけれど、
それでも今も、夜のパリは好き。

Paris is my very first overseas experience in my life.

I still remember the colour of the street lights I looked up while I was coming up to the ground from the stairs of the metro station at night. It looked so different from the ones I saw in Japan and I thought it was beautiful.

20 years have passed.

Paris doesn't excite me anymore as 20 years ago after 14 times of my visit, but I still like Paris at night.