There is something very wonderful about Paris that keeps you coming back again and again. Sure, it's full of museums and monuments, but just walking through the streets is an endless pleasure. The streets of Paris are not laid out in a grid. They are a conglomeration of "squares", known as "places" here. The streets radiate out from these centers like rays from the sun and intersect with one another like the waves produced when you drop pebbles in a pond. The rays are connected by a haphazard assortment of cross streets which tangle the whole city into an unending variety of pathways. No matter how sure you are of how to get from one place to another, you always seem to take a new way, drawn by the multitude of possibilities. And everywhere you turn there is something interesting from the endless supply of architectural features to the little one act plays produced by the everyday interactions of people on the street, in front of businesses, renovations, schools. Paris is just not boring.
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