{"id":122,"date":"2013-08-06T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diningtraveler.com\/2013\/08\/euro-adventures-paris-true-love.html"},"modified":"2015-04-03T19:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:33:11","slug":"euro-adventures-paris-true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diningtraveler.com\/2013\/08\/euro-adventures-paris-true-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Euro Adventures: Paris True Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
During my six years living in Europe, I traveled several times to Paris. During those trips I was either working or visiting friends. I had never been on a romantic trip to Paris until I met the Dutchman last year. Last year, two weeks before leaving Brussels for good, we hopped on the Thalys (the high-speed train) to Paris for a few days. The trip was on a whim, as I was leaving soon and we had only been dating for a month. One day he said, “we should go to Paris” and given my love for travel, I jumped at the idea. We spent 2 days walking the streets of Paris, sharing an ice cream cone at one of the gardens in Versailles, kissing by the Eiffel Tower, and getting to know one another over tea at a caf\u00e9 near Centre Pompidou. The day we headed back to Belgium, the city was under siege by torrential rains. We tried the metro, then a cab trying to make it to the station on time to no avail. It was the last train of the day. I had a race to run the early the next morning. It was our first crisis together and although a little nervous, we were going through the options. I recall saying “maybe the train is delayed”, he just brushed off my theory. As we rushed to the platform, there it was: the Paris to Brussels train was late! We both hugged and said “I love you” for the first time. For that, Paris Nord will always have a special place in my heart.
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