City of Love ( EVENTUALLY )
For centuries, the European city has oozed love and romance. Paris stirs something in couples who laze in its manicured gardens, get intimate in candlelit wine bars and stroll along the River Seine arm-in-arm at sunset.
Films like Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and the iconic Moulin Rouge! have perpetuated the idea that Paris is the City of Romance.
YOUNG ROMANCE
Half a lifetime ago, I presumed I would be giddy in love with Paris when I visited the European city with my boyfriend. I was 25 and living in London on my OE; he was still in New Zealand running a business. We planned our Paris trip by fax.
“Baby, I can’t wait to see you soon,” he wrote. We had been together for more than a year, but for many months our relationship had been a long-distance one.
Paris was a romantic destination for a twenty-something journalist on her first trip to Europe. We stayed in a tiny boutique hotel
