We find almost impossible to force ourselves to have down time. It is too hard, when the whole city of Paris is out there, to stay in our apartment and rest, especially when even otherwise mundane tasks are exciting and novel — like returning something to FNAC, the big electronics/book store, which Suzie and I did on Friday afternoon — an experience which provided further evidence to my hypothesis that […]
Steve, the boys and I got invited to a party by our neighbor directly above us. I happend to meet a friendly woman on the stairs who asked me if the elevator was working yet, and I was able to deliver the great news that the elevator was no longer “en panne.” She was thrilled as it had been out of service for a week and she was having a […]
Ugh. Here’s what the day consisted of today: Me vs. the Video Camera: After I made a trip to the FNAC store to buy a cable to hook up the video camera to the computer, the video camera broke. The tape came halfway out of the camera and would not come all the way out or go all the way in. It was stuck. I fiddled with it endlessly and […]
Four I forgot while blogging yesterday: (1) How to meet people in Paris: When we first came out of our apartment, we walked to the side and were looking all the way up at the top of our building to see our balcony and our windows. While we were gazing skyward, an elegant elderly woman came up to us and also started looking upwards (it reminded me of that game […]
Someone asked today for a link to the location of our Paris apartment. So here it is. You can of course zoom in or out and move the map around to see our location vis-a-vis more well-known Paris sites.