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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #434: My Trip to Paris

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I discuss my solo trip to Paris—takeaways, delights, and challenges.

Takeaways:

1. Add beauty. The other night I stopped by a flower shop to pick up a pink hyacinth for 3 euros. The shopkeeper wrapped it in Kraft paper for my walk home. This little gem is deliciously fragrant and sitting next to me as I type.

2. Saunter. Each day I've explored various parts of the city for at least 15,000 steps (about six miles). The lack of rushing and the chance to take in Paris by foot with stops at sidewalk cafes to warm up or rest has been a treat.

3. Greet. It's customary to say "bonjour" upon entering shops or even purchasing a train ticket from an agent. There's a formality that feels quaint and civilized.

4. Sip. When I first arrived, I went straight to a cafe and sat for nearly an hour sipping two pots of thé vert à la menthe (green mint tea). There's no rush to turn over a table for another client, you can linger and sip as long as you'd like.

5. Read. I love seeing people with books in hand on the metro, at cafes, and, of course, in the many book shops. It's a great reminder to put the phone down and sink into a good read.

6. Express. Men in red pants, women in leopard-print, kids on scooters. There's a sense of style that's wrapped in self-expression.

7. Savor. A baguette here is a heavenly experience. Pizza sans cheese doused in a spicy oil is divine. The dark chocolates melt in your mouth. And there's an abundant amount of green juice.

8. Appreciate. Finding gifts to bring home is a treasure hunt. Today I picked up olive oil in a square bottle modeled after Chanel No. 5, a pink rose candle, gold (yes, gold!) peppercorns, and chocolates wrapped in pastel paper.

New discoveries
Petite Palais
Hemingway Bar
Wild & the Moon —la vie en rose
Rue Cremieux
La Maison Rose
The Abbey Bookshop
Weekly salon

Favorite stops
WH Smith (rose garden tea)
Merci
Shakespeare & Co
Le Greneier de Notre Dame
Monoprix
Wander Le Marais
Tuileries
Angelina's
Eiffel Tower view

Challenges
Directions
Lost jacket
Jet lag
Alone in restos

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Mentioned in the Podcast:

Don't be a Tourist in Paris by Vanessa Grall
Waking Up in Paris by Sonia Choquette
In Paris by Jeanne Damas and Lauren Bastide
A Paris All Your Own edited by Eleanor Brown
Packing for Paris
A Peek into Paris
TranquiliT in Paris
Weekly Sunday dinner parties: Jim-Haynes.com

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0:00.0

Tranquility DeJure, November 27th, 2018.

0:09.7

Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 434th edition of Tranquility

0:16.7

Dejure.

0:18.2

Delighted to be here with you today, and my apologies for not getting a podcast out last

0:22.5

week. I was in Paris, really kind of savoring the experience and didn't bring my microphone

0:29.1

and all that, so I thought, you know what? Next week, I'll just pull together one that talks about

0:34.5

my time in Paris. So that's what I'm going to be sharing with you today.

0:39.5

Takeaways, delights, challenges, because of course there's always challenges. It's not like these

0:46.8

sorts of trips or travels go completely smoothly. And then my favorite stops. So this is,

0:53.8

think of this as a whirlwind adventure

0:56.5

of coming along with me to Paris last week. And one of the pieces that is really kind of fun

1:05.7

about this that I want to share is how do we travel solo? I got a question about that. I believe it was via

1:14.4

Instagram. And if you followed along on Instagram, hopefully you got to see a lot of the fun

1:19.1

photos and kind of follow along as to where I was, what I was hitting, what I was seeing,

1:24.1

what I was experiencing. And it's fun to kind of pull together. It's almost like a digital

1:29.7

scrapbook that is not just in my, you know, in a scrapbook on my shelf. It's actually out there

1:36.0

for the world to see. And so thank you. There are those of you who followed along and commented

1:40.1

and all that. But one question I did get is like, oh, you know, it's so anxiety producing to travel

1:45.7

solo. How do you do it? And so I wanted to talk a little bit about that. So I've got lots to share.

1:51.3

And before we dive in, I wanted to mention a few things. One is on Sunday. I did a blog post.

1:57.5

She's kind of sharing that I'm in a state of reflection about tranquility

2:01.8

du jour. And it does not mean the podcast is going away or that there's going to be massive

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