Last night I decided to take the train from St. Louis to Chicago rather than drive or fly. The last time I took the train in the US was again from St. Louis to Chicago to apply for a long-stay visa at the French Consulate in Chicago, but that was 15 years ago. Things have […]
This is a picture of me, my sister, and my mom. Don’t we all look alike? Let’s take a leap back in time about 14 years to 1998, and that was the first time that I lived in Béziers. I had just gotten married (three times, all to the same man), and we were living […]
Just before leaving for my very first trip to Paris back in 1992, my French teacher told me to go and see the legendary bookstore “Shakespeare and Company”. That’s what I did, and since then I’ve had a bit of an obsession with the history of this legendary English bookstore and all of those who […]
I’m so ready for spring to get here. Yesterday it was snowing up a storm, so we may have to wait a little while before seeing some nice weather. With the arrival of spring, the countdown to summer gets shorter and shorter every day. I figured out that we only have about seven more full […]
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 […]
I haven’t written on this blog since the month of May. 4 months ago. I think I just spent so much of last year getting ready for the move to France that wasn’t. We spent almost a whole year getting the house ready for the market, packing, taking care of administrative details, and just gearing […]
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) […]
