Published in The Northern Echo January 8th 2008.
After recently graduating in linguistics from Newcastle University, Catharine Hewitson, 22, from Middleton St George, Darlington, has embarked on a trip to Paris to collect material for a book she hopes to write. In the first of a series of articles, she describes feeling out of place in the cosmopolitan city
WHEN I first decided to come to Paris for two months, I envisaged a glamorous arrival; gliding into the City of Light in a clichéd Parisian outfit such as a trench coat and a beret, with my capsule wardrobe of super-chic clothing and essential luggage in tow. Nothing like reality, then.
