New Apartment

We are back in Paris and in our new apartment. We've had a few headaches getting our phone, TV and internet hooked up and our stuff from Canada hasn't shown up yet. My first blog post was going to be a scathing rant about France's antiquated infrastructure and outdated business practices, but it's nothing you haven't heard before. If you want to read more about that, just search Google and I'm sure you'll find thousands of stories just like ours.

Instead, I will show you our new apartment. Lori was in Paris for a couple of weeks in June and she found this apartment then. She was worried about picking it without me seeing it first, but she did a great job. We are closer to where she works, it's only a 25 minute walk. There are grocery stores, markets and restaurants close by. Most importantly, it's a full-size apartment with two bedrooms, separate living and dining spaces, a real oven and a refrigerator with a freezer. It's not an over-sized hotel room, like our last apartment.

The ceilings are 10 feet high and every room has floor to ceiling glass doors that let tons of light in. It doesn't feel like we live in a dungeon anymore.

We also have a fireplace. It has been sealed off to help reduce pollution, but it's still a nice feature.

The one downside of the apartment is the tiny elevator. The building was built before elevators were invented, so when they wanted to add one, they had to build one small enough to fit inside the central staircase.

It is not built for North American sized men. I can't walk straight into it, I have to turn sideways.

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