This June, I’ll be in France, a country I’ve been to many times, though most often, Paris was my destination. On my very first visit to Europe as a young woman, I was wide-eyed and wide open to new experiences. Once there, I wrote my impressions of the places I visited. But we were decades away from cellphone selfies, and all I have to show for those trips are a few photographs, now nearly-faded, snapped with a relatively bulky analog camera.

I’m on a three-week break from my first job af...