The first image of this visual diary is the starting point of the adventure which, once again, sees my friend Sergey and me as protagonists.

We are in Paris, where we met, and we are leaving to La Rochelle by train.

This is the tower of Gare de Lyon , which is not the railway station from which we are supposed to take our train to La Rochelle, but the one where I arrived to, travelling from Switzerland.

The matter is that Gare de Lyon has at least a slight Belle-Époque charm, while Gare Montparnasse is an ugly modern cube of glass and iron, which really doesn't give me any feeling to take any picture of it.

So let’s forget Paris and get over.