This is the Rue de Rivoli, an extremely long, straight street, that runs parallel to the Tuileries Gardens and the Louvre Museum, in Paris, France. Rue de Rivoli is full of activity, awesome shopping and is one of my favourite places in the world.... at least so far! I first found myself here on April 29th, 2003 when I emerge from the seemingly endless staircases and escalators of the Underground into a traffic-congested street thousands of kilometres away from where I started; it was hot and blindingly bright. Never would I imagine that this place…Rue de Rivoli would create a temptation in my life that would draw me back to its origin. A desire to challenge, explore and create…to get away from everything and everyone that I had become so familiur with. Leave my comfort zone. Experience foreign cultures and create new friendships. Live like I have never lived by surrounding myself with everything foreign and unknown.