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Obsessive Compulsive Strange Thoughts of Life & Existentialism
A film about a man with a very serious problem. A man who sometimes forgets where he is and has obsessive strange thoughts about life and existentialism which usually comes out of nowhere.
He starts to panic because he doesn’t understand what is happening to him. He is also afraid to go to sleep at night because he believes he won’t wake up. He ponders how strange life is that he exists.
After he left the military and the 2001 attacks, the man now identified as Ping Pong, sees life like something out of a bad horror movie. He needs to go to sleep but knows what is coming. He starts freaking out.
Evidence points to him having a mild dissociative condition, possibly related to stressful conditions he encountered and an underlying anxiety disorder plus the Chinese made medications he is taking and the lack of true wonder “recreational drugs”.
Life to him is really strange and odd but most people around him don’t notice this because they remain deeply embedded in American culture which encourages it’s citizens to focus on mundane things such as watching television and the grim reality of providing for one’s own family by getting ahead in a dead-end job.
After graduating from Harvard University, Ping Pong realizes that thoughtfulness in the USA is not encouraged and neither is noticing the strangeness and arbitrariness of life by frightening people so he does not get noticed or labeled as odd or mentally ill.
He seeks a different way to cope so he becomes a photographer and writes comments about his subjects which interacts with his artwork.
His dissociation is a mental phenomena in how attention, memory, and emotions work in the form of “spacing out”, so he decides to become an astronaut in China’s new space program after being influenced by Neil Armstrong and Navin Johnson.... BUT in fact it turned out that he had been a gifted and talented child raised in a classless society which turned him to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression.
Existential depression is a depression that arises when an individual confronts certain basic issues of existence such as the four issues--death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness.
Humans do not enter a world which is inherently structured but given a world structure created by other humans. And most of these humans are messed up.
Isolation is not possible on earth and existential concerns occur disproportionately among gifted persons, because gifted people as idealists are able to consider how things should be, however, they see the world is falling into how it should not be.
Ping Pong becomes disassociated, disappointed, and frustrated when such ideals are not reached. He notices the inconsistencies and absurdities in society and the behaviors of those around them. Traditions are ultimately questioned and challenged.
When he shares these concerns with others, he usually met with reactions ranging from puzzlement to hostility. He attempts to find some sense of meaning to grasp and pull himself out of the mire of "unfairness”, acutely aware that his life is finite and brief, and that he is alone as one small organism in a quite large world, and that there is a frightening freedom regarding how one chooses to live one's life in an absurd, arbitrary, and capricious world where his life will have little impact and then die.
Breaking the "failure to thrive" syndrome came with no need for daily hugs or physical connection. Just apeirophobia: the fear of eternity and knowing everything will be wiped out.
He had forgotten due to having to pay for his phone and cable bill why he was here and that it was all a waste of time. The most important question was to make the most of what he has. How was he going to go about given his developed talents and time spent would make the difference.
Looking back on his life on board the new and improved Chinese space ship, “Firecracker”, right before blast-off, sitting alongside fellow astronauts, Clink Clack, Pritt Pratt, and Charlie Chan, he regrets his former life and time spent on earth, but now not the past, nor the future, but now, everything will have a massive effect on what happens later knowing that nothing easy is going to make him happy. Anything that is worth it in life is never going to be easy. He dismisses existential questioning because it will only waste the time he has left to live his life as a true space cadet basically ignoring Aristotle for Confucianism …
He believed that it was cool to reflect the principles upon which the United States was founded, especially after men from earth walked on the moon.
He believed in cultural and ethnic diversity, the free exchange of creative ideas, and an entrepreneurial spirit that lifts all citizens in a community.
He believed it was cool to welcome and celebrate a diversity of visitors, the way Provincetown, Massachusetts, has been welcoming LGBTQ+ travelers for decades.
He believed it was cool to live in harmony with nature, the way Pacific Grove, California, became Butterfly Town USA and Saranac Lake, New York, and its neighboring towns in Adirondack State Park have pursued a sustainable tourism industry that respects the region’s pristine lakes and mountains and rips off dumb-ass tourists.
He believed it was cool to live in a community where he would be able to boast of a vibrant downtown, with cutting-edge cuisine, and a community spirit that makes visitors feel like friends, as all the towns on the 'A' list do while paying high property taxes for the liberal schools who house the children of illegal immigrants who have never paid taxes so they can learn to be either good sheep or cattle..
He was no longer Ping Pong but now known as Ding Dong to the men at space command back on earth, believing to himself he would create such a life beyond Pluto reflecting upon his favorite american movies, "It's a Wonderful Life" & "The Best Years of Our Lives".
Enjoying the Moment surrounded by super polished calibrated light mirrors.. precision laser light beams.. stretching space... gravity waves… they cannot be seen or heard.. . a dense universe where light cannot travel.. it cannot be caught.. a nice idea.. but no one detected it.. the last frontier.. cosmic ice age light disappears in the last burning star.. it’s a degenerate era.. he eventually disappears into a black hole wondering ‘What else makes a small town cool”?
Søren is sitting on the chair, but you can have the park bench behind him. You can sit there and think that existentialism is a humanism. Or something else.
Library Garden, The Royal Library, Copenhagen
Born and raised in Ireland, but spending most of his adult life in France, this is the final resting place of Samuel Beckett. Note the appropriately minimalist offering from an admirer - a pair of stones (Pozzo and Lucky, perhaps?) - Montparnasse cemetery, Paris.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (French pronunciation: [saʁtʁ], English: /ˈsɑrt/; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy and Existentialism, and his work continues to influence further fields such as sociology and literary studies.
me in the sixties / "SIXTIES" = AMERICAN RESTAURANT BAR - 5x in BERLIN - visit my wordpress blog at flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/berlin-blues/ featuring the same photo and some further interesting links ...
some days before the LoveParade mass panic near my hometown in DUISBURG (death toll 21 victims, 510 persons injured) they organized another festival - idea: to block the car highway / Autobahn "A 40" / Ruhrschnellweg for one Sunday; allowed only: pedestrians, bicycles, roller blader, skater - and musicians; it has been a nice festival, though 3 million visitors came; length of the event, closed highway section: 60 kilometers! in DUISBURG they organized the awful situation leading 1.4 million visitors into a train-station area for only 250.000 people - with no opened exit - to break a visitor-quantity record; I am still shocked by such a great stupidity ...
Montreal QC - A scene on a bookshelf in Nader Hasan's apartment. January 2011.
taken on a Canon F-1 slr w/ 50mm FD f1.8 lens. Fuji Neopan iso 400 film pushed to 1600.
Loc East Norfolk VI Form College, Gorleston
This is Jean-Paul Sartre, what a man. I'm studying his book Existentialism and Humanism for my philosophy A Level and I'm loving it. I think his theories are wonderful and so similar to my philosophy on life.
1. Turchese/Turquoise, 2. Untitled, 3. non è mai troppo tardi per innamorarsi.., 4. ..., 5. patatE, 6. existentialism, 7. Untitled, 8. me and my friend,
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
I was coming back from Kierkegaard's graveyard and knew I'd never be able to come back to this spot later at night so I tried a rare day photo. This location would have been outside the city walls in Kierkegaard's day and would have probably been just grass and of no particular importance to him that I know of.
PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías
Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004
"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.
Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.
"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.
Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004
"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.
These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.
"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.
A portrait by his cousin Christian Kierkegaard made about 1840. In:
SHARP, Dennis (1966). Modern Architecture and Expressionism. George Braziler, New York. LCCCN 67-15596
Quadralectic Architecture - Marten Kuilman (2011), p. 905:
The theme of anxiety and fear is closely related to the existentialism of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855). He placed in his book ‘The Concept of Anxiety’ (1844) the psychological entity of unfocused fear in an environment of sin, with a reference to Adam, who was forbidden to eat the apple (of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil). The prohibition implied a form of freedom, either to eat or not to eat. Kierkegaard drew the conclusion that Adam’s state of initial bliss was the result of ignorance, which ended with the predicament of losing his freedom when consuming the ‘knowledge of good and evil’. The result is a state of anxiety, and a lost innocence.
The events unfolding around the ‘first sin’ can be compared to the philosophical-quadralectical implications of the ‘first division’ – and touches in many aspects the same psychological bedrock. The First Quadrant (I) was visualized as the place in a communication without any boundaries or divisions. The First Quadrant embodied - on a psychological level – an unknown situation before division (choice). The very moment of division – seen in Kierkegaard’s terminology as a ‘leap’, when ‘sin’ suddenly comes into the world – creates the freedom to choose (i.e. the type of division thinking). The position of this event is in a quadralectic communication situated at the border of the First and Second Quadrant. The Second Quadrant (II) is characterized by freedom and experimentation in a ‘state of innocence’ (of division thinking). Kierkegaard’s anxiety is produced by a state of ‘nothing’, which holds ‘a possibility of the repetition of the originary forced choice prior to its actualization’ (CAMERON, 2007; p. 99).
CAMERON, Ed (2007). The Ethical Paradox in Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety. COLLOQUY text theory critique 13 (2007). Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
as sent to my group www.flickr.com/groups/abc-visualized for the letter "M": modern times, Mexican dancer, Mekong River, motorcycle construction - 1. 3749, 2. Sadness, 3. ++little boy blue++, 4. Eénwielige motorfiets / One wheel motor cycle
property of the Nedbalka Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia
collection of a modern Slovak art
for educational purpose only
please do not use without permission
Toulouse 1982: Analog picture taken with Pentax; digital version created by scanning negative with Canoscan 8800F (BW version created with photoshop)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPL3O7NmgpI
Shine On You Crazy Diamond ( acoustic ) .... David Guilmour
You reach the secret for surrender
Heart over mind,s where this is at
Have a great rest of Saturday
Heart shape bokeh shines with me !
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Grab von Jean-Paul Sartre (und Simone de Beauvoir) in Paris.
Jean-Paul Sartre (* 21. Juni 1905 in Paris; † 15. April 1980 in Paris) war ein französischer Existenzialist, Romancier, Dramatiker, Philosoph und Publizist. Ihm wurde der Nobelpreis für Literatur 1964 zugesprochen, den er ablehnte.
Jean-Paul Sartre (* 21 June 1905; † 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist and literary critic. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it.
Sadly, it's been a while since my last upload. (Hopefully this caption/story/whatever-you-call-it makes up for some of that.)
Something kind of disturbing happened today. I answered the doorbell and was met by a sixteen-year-old neighbor of mine who asked to use the house phone. He said that his mother had threatened to kill him with a hammer and that he had it all recorded on the iPad he had under his arm. My dad got him some water and we had our neighbor call the police department.
While we waited he told us his side of what happened. He had been talking with his mom about something (he never specified what and we never pressed him) and I guess the situation escalated such that he ended up in a locked bedroom while she tried to beat down the door with a hammer while threatening to kill him. He somehow snuck downstairs, got his shoes on, and ran out of the house.
At first one police officer arrived and we let them have their privacy (my family and I didn't really want to be involved in this beyond alerting the proper authorities). An additional officer then arrived, then followed by a third officer. One squad car took the boy to the police station to keep him safe while the other two cruisers would go up to his house and talk to his mother. As he walked out to the squad car, I overheard the police officer asking the boy why he wasn't in school today (the public high school began the new school year today) and the boy said that he had been suspended.
And that's all I know and that's all I expect I will know about this story.
This story lead me to an interesting thought which served as the inspiration for this shot:
Is a hammer a tool or a weapon?
This question digs a lot deeper than most would think. Does an object’s classification depend on its use or its intention? If classification depends on use, does it depend on intended use or actual use? I’m not trying to play a game of linguistics here, but rather I’m bringing up existentialism.
If I use a medieval war hammer to drive stakes into the ground to build a railroad, it’s still a weapon; it’s just not being used as such. An ordinary household hammer (that was originally designed solely for construction purposes) used to assault someone is a weapon. Is there a point at which that hammer ceases to be a weapon and returns to being a simple tool? If so, is the point determined by a set amount of time, or is the hammer no longer a weapon the next time it’s used as a tool?
It’s cray how complex something as simple as a hammer can be…
Strobist:
SB900 shot thru umbrella camera right @ 1/4 power
Vivitar 285HV zoomed to tele @ 1/4 power shot from stand a few feet behind my head.
Where we are, where we could be, and where we used to be demonstrate the difference in time, the awareness of Existentialism, or simply make us realize how fragile or transient is the term "presence".
Camera: Leica MP
Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm
Film: Ilford Delta 400 PRO
key works from legendary pink dots , tear garden, current 93, skinny puppy & world serpent /projekt bands
"The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [palɛ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various French national legislatures (excepting only the unicameral National Assembly of the Second Republic) since the establishment of the Sénat conservateur during the Consulate; as such, it has been home to the Senate of the Fifth Republic since its establishment in 1958.
Immediately west of the palace on the Rue de Vaugirard is the Petit Luxembourg, now the residence of the Senate President; and slightly further west, the Musée du Luxembourg, in the former orangery. On the south side of the palace, the formal Luxembourg Garden presents a 25-hectare (62-acre) green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and large basins of water where children sail model boats.
The 6th arrondissement of Paris (VIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le sixième.
The arrondissement, called Luxembourg in a reference to the seat of the Senate and its garden, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It includes educational institutions such as the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Institut de France, as well as Parisian monuments such as the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, the Pont des Arts, which links the 1st and 6th arrondissements over the Seine, Saint-Germain Abbey and Saint-Sulpice Church.
This central arrondissement, which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (surrounding the abbey founded in the 6th century) and Luxembourg (surrounding the Palace and its Gardens), has played a major role throughout Parisian history and is well known for its café culture and the revolutionary intellectualism (existentialism, authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) and literature (writers Paul Éluard, Boris Vian, Albert Camus and Françoise Sagan) it has hosted.
With its cityscape, intellectual tradition, history, architecture and central location, the arrondissement has long been home to French intelligentsia. It is a major locale for art galleries and fashion stores, as well as Paris's most expensive area. The arrondissement is one of France's richest districts in terms of average income; it is part of Paris Ouest alongside the 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, as well as the Neuilly-sur-Seine inner suburb. The 6th arrondissement is the smallest in Paris in terms of area covered.
Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi]) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.
The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015 Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2019, with 9.6 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and the Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site, and popular landmarks in the city centre included the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, on the Île de la Cité, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre.
Paris received 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China. It was ranked as the second most visited travel destination in the world in 2019, after Bangkok and just ahead of London. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Looking southeast
"The 6th arrondissement of Paris (VIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le sixième.
The arrondissement, called Luxembourg in a reference to the seat of the Senate and its garden, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It includes educational institutions such as the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Institut de France, as well as Parisian monuments such as the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, the Pont des Arts, which links the 1st and 6th arrondissements over the Seine, Saint-Germain Abbey and Saint-Sulpice Church.
This central arrondissement, which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (surrounding the abbey founded in the 6th century) and Luxembourg (surrounding the Palace and its Gardens), has played a major role throughout Parisian history and is well known for its café culture and the revolutionary intellectualism (existentialism, authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) and literature (writers Paul Éluard, Boris Vian, Albert Camus and Françoise Sagan) it has hosted.
With its cityscape, intellectual tradition, history, architecture and central location, the arrondissement has long been home to French intelligentsia. It is a major locale for art galleries and fashion stores, as well as Paris's most expensive area. The arrondissement is one of France's richest districts in terms of average income; it is part of Paris Ouest alongside the 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, as well as the Neuilly-sur-Seine inner suburb. The 6th arrondissement is the smallest in Paris in terms of area covered.
Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi]) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.
The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015 Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2019, with 9.6 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and the Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site, and popular landmarks in the city centre included the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, on the Île de la Cité, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre.
Paris received 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China. It was ranked as the second most visited travel destination in the world in 2019, after Bangkok and just ahead of London. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.