It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: adventure journey funny scents travel excitement flying airports adventures vacation traveling travelling airport jet pollution experiences odd-humor i-love-to-travel i-love-vacations odd-observation
Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed in a translucent misty lavender glow. Entering the city from that airport was truly unique. Charles de Gaulle, built nineteen miles north of the bustling metropolis, ensured that the final point of destination was veiled from the eyes of the traveller as they descended. No doubt, the officials scrupulously planned the airport’s location to prevent the incessant air traffic and roaring engines from visibly or audibly polluting the ambience of their beloved capital, and apparently, they succeeded. If one flew over during the summer months, the visitor would be visibly presented with beautifully managed quilt-like fields of alternating gold and green appearing as though they were tilled and clipped with the mathematical precision of a slide rule. The countryside was dotted with quaint villages and towns that were obviously under meticulous planning control. When the aircraft began to descend, this prevailing sense of exactitude and order made the visitor long for an aerial view of the capital city and its famous wonders, hoping they could see as many landmarks as they could before they touched ground, as was the usual case with other major international airports, but from this point of entry, one was denied a glimpse of the city below. Green fields, villages, more fields, the ground grew closer and closer, a runway appeared, a slight bump or two was felt as the craft landed, and they were surrounded by the steel and glass buildings of the airport. Slightly disappointed with this mysterious game of hide-and-seek, the voyager must continue on and collect their baggage, consoled by the reflection that they will see the metropolis as they make their way into town. For those travelling by road, the concrete motorway with its blue road signs, the underpasses and the typical traffic-logged hubbub of industrial areas were the first landmarks to greet the eye, without a doubt, it was a disheartening first impression. Then, the real introduction began. Quietly, and almost imperceptibly, the modern confusion of steel and asphalt was effaced little by little as the exquisite timelessness of Parisian heritage architecture was gradually unveiled. Popping up like mushrooms were cream sandstone edifices filigreed with curled, swirling carvings, gently sloping mansard roofs, elegant ironwork lanterns and wood doors that charmed the eye, until finally, the traveller was completely submerged in the glory of the Second Empire ala Baron Haussmann’s master plan of city design, the iconic grand mansions, tree-lined boulevards and avenues, the quaint gardens, the majestic churches with their towers and spires, the shops and cafés with their colourful awnings, all crowded and nestled together like jewels encrusted on a gold setting.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: travel paris france airports adventures first-impressions airport i-love-paris charles-de-gaulle-airport
It’s the unknown that draws people.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: people adventure mysteries mystery discovery unknown attraction fascination mysterious adventures magnetism love-of-the-unknown
We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight along,look yourself upward an additional way to obtain foods,and then do a similar for the next water for the south.
Chayada WelljaipetTags: adventure fantasy short-stories adventures fantasy-fiction short-story-collection adventure-travel adventure-stories chayada-welljaipet short-storystory
Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I'm not sure what is planned, if, you go against their wishes. But, I'm sure you're smart and won't test them.
Chayada WelljaipetTags: children children-s-books short-stories adventures childrens-books short-story short-story-collection adventure-travel children-books adventure-stories chayada-welljaipet
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
Anna Katharine GreenTags: humor adventures
I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: life loneliness invention adventures
Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.
Steven HerrickTags: books read drive adventures
Przygody (...) mają to do siebie, że dosyć szybko zmieniają się w przykre wspomnienia. To już wystarczająco wysokie koszty za kilka minut wątpliwej przyjemności.
Izabela SowaTags: adventures
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
G.K. ChestertonTags: dragons adventures chesterton hippogriffs
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