A Flaneuse's guide to travel

Wandering

What makes cities interesting? For me it is the unexpected and the chance of discovery – the concept of serendipity – finding what is right under your feet, in front of you, above you and around you – if only you take the time to look. To be in cities like London and Paris, layered with history and humanity, seem to require more than just viewing – not to mention queuing – ‘the top 10 tourist attractions’. So I may see none of those but I am hoping I see and experience much more. There are two theories to these wanderings.. Psychogeography - more structured and maybe restrictive in its rules and strategies with algorithmic walking – take the ‘first right, second left’ approach. "It's the psychological and the geographical. It's about how we're affected by being in certain places -- architecture, weather, who you're with -- it's just a general sense of exciteme...

The idea

The crowd is her element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. Her passion and her profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneuse, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home.” Adapted from Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”

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