30 Nights of Day: Late Night Sunset Rocks Harder than Ted Nugent

The best part of summer is always the fact that the days are longer. When the sunsets at 8pm back home it means that you are still drinking on the porch around 10pm, your night doesn't start until midnight. In Paris the sun doesn't set until nearly 10:30. Amazing. What does this mean for a student who doesn't really study? This means that the time in which you feel obligated your homework comes on Monday at midnight and the time that the pre-gaming stops and the partying begins at 2am. But don't be worried mother and mother's friends, it is not all about constant partying (yet it is) there are also the aesthetic aspects of the late night sunset that makes Paris in the summer time the Audrey Hepburn like romantic experience you would expect. At 9:30ish the light dims and starts to play on the buildings, the river begins to look less disgusting and starts to become beautiful and mysterious. It gets slightly cooler, but not cold enough for a jacket, the perfect time to sit out for whatever drinks or dinner that you can afford. Suddenly drinking on bridges, in parks, on the Champs de Mars waiting for the tour to light up, are practically a friday/saturday/monday night ritual. I have a feeling that one of the aspects of the city I will miss most is waiting on the grass with 2 Euro wine for the 10:30 sunset.