Real life Emily in Paris —a writers retreat at legendary bookstore Shakespeare & Co
3 min readOct 29, 2020
Seeing Emily in Paris is a blast from the past for me, of days and nights spent on the left bank in the centre of the city, surrounded by those iconic little touches of urban architecture that are unmistakably Paris. Shakespeare & Co was the bookstore that offered me and other fellow travellers a bed for the night free of charge, but with the…