John O’Keefe recently discovered cells in our hippocampus responsible for our sense of direction, termed “place cells” (Makin, 2015). The cells are activated when we move locations, so a groups of them can a form map of an area in our brain. With so much to look at in Paris, it was hard to always pay attention to where we were going and activate those place cells. Here are some pics of my roommates and I lost in Paris. They don’t capture the most emotional distressing times or the countless times we started walking down the wrong street and turned around a few moments later. Even if we didn’t get to where we wanted quickly, we got to see a lot of Paris.
