We spent last week in Paris. For the first part of the week Tricia stayed in the apartment, I only ventured out for food and beverage. Thankfully there were shops nearby. At a cheese shop I found a baguette sandwich with cheese, Spanish ham, and cornichons, it was perfect for sitting on our deck. I…
Category: France
A different time in Paris
One major lesson, or reality, of our time in France is that we are perpetually gazing into the future with only a vague vision of our destination. We have a few waypoints in the months ahead but the final destination is still unclear. Though we are staying in an apartment in the 15th arrondissement our…
Sidelined by a microbe in Nanterre
Last Wednesday the homeless viruses of the area decided they needed a place to hang out, and I was chosen to be their AirBnb. In spite of the efforts of the Airborne that we took I succumbed to their invasion for a few days of coughing and sniffing. Thankfully for me, they checked out yesterday,…
Nanterre, with a day trip to Paris
We are in Nanterre until 3 June when we fly to Dublin. Here is our world until early July when we go back to La Thebauderie, for another chapter change in our life. We took a day trip into Paris, pretty easy: The 258 bus stops just a few feet from our apartment, we take…
Settling in to French life
We are settling in to French life. Wait, you say, you have been living in France for over two years, aren’t you already settled? In one sense, yes we are, as far as knowing how things work, or too often don’t work here. Yet, where we have been living in La Thebauderie we are surrounded…
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