Because not everything can make me happy.

[cerealjoe]

There are a couple of places in Paris that I consider "my" spots. Somehow they're linked with random memories... sitting here or walking there. Then there are places that I one day deemed as places that I do not like. One of those places is Montmartre. I can't even remember the last time I was there. I decided to give it another chance and yet again it failed to conquer me. Everyone knows Montmartre because of that damned Amelie film. I do not like that film, I really do not. Given the choice of those random colourful French films, I'd pick "Jeux d'enfants" (Love me if you dare) over Amelie any day. I don't know if Montmartre is now even more touristy than before, probably. For every tourist, there is someone trying to sell something and there is always someone trying to take a photo, that in the end they will never even look at. I climbed the stairs to the church, I walked around and I decided the view from there wasn't worth it in the end. And so I left and went to wander around the side streets, that is still the best thing to do in popular places. Going to touristy places reminds me over and over that in the end this LJ has more value for me than I could possibly describe. There are so many people out there with their cameras and I just know that most will never look at their holiday photos! At best they'll end up on some random folder on FaceBook. Most likely they'll just be uploaded into a folder on a computer "to be looked at later"... but that "later" will never come. It kind of makes me feel sad for all those lost photos.