What is more tempting to all of your human senses than just walking down the street in Paris? These particular memories stem from my spending a decent amount of time every summer in the 15th arrondissement, where my husband grew up, and where his parents still live. It’s a very residential district, and one of […]
Since I am not renewing my teaching contract this year, and since we are moving to the South of France in June, I’ve been spending the last six months or so really focusing on what to do about my professional life. I see this as a real opportunity to do something different and exciting, keeping […]
After seven months of pursuing our dream of selling our house then moving to France, today it has officially happened. We closed on the sale of our house in St. Louis! Neither of us was quite ready to believe it until all of the closing papers had been signed. Until the last minute, we were […]
It’s kind of hard to believe that this is really going to happen for us. All of last year we were getting our house on the market, thinking all the while that we would be moving to France during the summer (after the successful sale of our home, of course!). By now we would have […]
Contract #4, Let’s do this already! My last post started out, “Moving to France in 24 days, and long-stay visa”. That was on May 14, and two contracts ago. The funny thing is that there are a lot of people interested in our house, but for reasons way out of our control (nothing to do […]
Fast forward 14 days…… …and we’re back in Paris after taking a trip around France! When we first got back to Paris, we were arriving by coach from Normandy. We arrived at our hotel in mid-afternoon, ready to hit the town. Everyone was especially excited because the date was June 21. You know what that […]
After dinner we headed up to Montmartre http://www.aparisguide.com/montmartre/index.html, which is quite close by foot. We had watched Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/ in class before our departure, so they thought it was fun to see Le Café des Deux Moulins, the café where Amélie works in the movie. Just after having a look (from the outside) […]
We woke up early on day 2 in Paris, and made our way to the Gare Montparnasse http://parisbytrain.com/gare-montparnasse-photo-tour/. We boarded a train to Chartres, and less than an hour later we were greeted by my French teacher friends, Christine and Odile. They gave us a little tour of the town, including a history lesson about and […]
After lunch, we started a walking tour of Paris. Since we were already in the 2ème, our guide offered to have us stop by his house right around the corner. He has the obvious good fortune of owning his own house, right in the very center of Paris. From the street, you open the oversized, […]
Upon our arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, we didn’t waste any time at all. We went directly into the city, dropped off our luggage at the hotel, and went into town on the Métro. http://www.ratp.fr/plan-interactif/ I had already given my students a lesson on how the Paris Métro works, so even if […]
