Paris has never been projected as a cold city. Always as the romantic one. Having only two days, we hopped on the Paris L'Open tour bus in order to get a clear picture of the city as such. The cold, as we waited for the bus to arrive, was slowly teaching us that it was … Continue reading Paris L’Open on a cold day.
Author: avrinajoslin
Avrina Joslin is a writer of fiction, poetry and travel essays. She has an MA in Writing from The University of Warwick and a BA in English Studies from Christ University.
Avrina is an inclusive feminist and believes in the fluidity of all things. She thinks about place, space & time. About childhood, sexuality & the sea. She’s gone and come – to obscure parts of the world and has found home in all of them. She was born and brought up in Villupuram, an incomplete town in southern India, where she currently lives, plotting her next trip, writing and healing some bones.
She trembles in bed at night with desire for the unknown. And lives with faith. She has nothing else.
"Never did sun more beautifully steep / In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; / Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! / The river glideth at his own sweet will: / Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; / And all that mighty heart is lying still!" (Upon Westminster Bridge- William … Continue reading Upon Westminster Bridge