Fifty Fifty XC

As the sun comes out this afternoon in Portobello, exactly five years ago I was arriving in Paris with my college classmates. We made our way in from the airport to our hotel near the Bastille. The city was sunny and warm and after we'd dumped our stuff P and I went out to explore a bit of the Marais district and sit in the Place des Vosges for a while.
Hemingway was right.