Writing Fiction Based on Walking

This walk was quite a challenge, for I was injured. This walk probably would’ve been a thirty to 20 minute exploration, but in the end it felt like an endless fight to the end.

Walking through the passage follows the atrium-like style around Paris. I went to one place that looks almost and not if looks exactly like the inside of the passages. It’s a Sunday flea market called Le Carreau du Temple, and when I went in my head I thought, “only in Paris can they make a flea market look fancy.”

I read a bit about the passages before I left, and I saw the specific definition and explanation for what I was about to participate to. The site said the passage was a “… private road open to the public, a shortcut between several channels, whether covered or not. Pedestrian area, the passage can house both commercial and housing. Only rich ornamentation and luxury boutiques differentiate a passage gallery.” I was confused with the notion that people could possibly be living there, because at first I thought it was a mall type of situation.

The style of the passage was very industrial like, it follows the cities themes that I believe it has in its architectural design: Industrial and historic. The walk was the exact opposite from my place and was not close to my past walks, which is why I find myself learning more in this assignment. In past assignments I found streets or areas that I have accidently strolled through or been to. This is, from what I recall, the first time an assignment has plucked me from my arrondissement and placed me in an unknown and not yet explored location by me.