Finding our Paris Rhythm
Bonsoir,
It’s Sunday in Paris and hot as can be under brilliant blue skies. The weather forecast for next week is trecherous with a prediction of 100 degrees on Tuesday. Yikes! We are shocked at this in June, usually an August problem. Our new apartment has plenty of windows but no set of fans to help stir the breeze. Most likely we will buy a cheap fan tomorrow especially for sleeping. Between 5 and 7pm, it was like an oven in the apartment since we get the Western sun.
Bernie took a set of pictures of the apartment with his camera and they are better than mine so will share. Pay close attention to one that looks a little like a spaceship. That’s our microwave! Haven’t yet figured out how to make it stop, but working on it.
We used the washer/dryer combination today. It’s an LG very much like mine at home except for the dryer cycle. To wash and dry one load took about six hours! I won’t use the dryer function very much. We will still go to our favorite Lavamatique.
This afternoon we made our way to rue St. Antoine and grabbed a table at Le Bouquet St. Paul t0 view the annual Carnaval parade made up of folks who now live in Paris but came from tropical countries from around the world. It is much like Mardi Gras in the summer. We ran into this about five years ago on Le Champs Élysées. The descriptive word was LOUD with drums blaring and scantily dressed folks movin’ and shakin’ everything! It lasted four hours starting at La Place de la Bastille, down St. Antoine to L’Hotel de Ville and back up along the river on Quai Celestin. We in essence saw and heard it from both ends!
Bernie took some interesting photos and we hope you enjoy.
Tomorrow is detail day, getting a few things for the apartment like workable icecube trays, a hot pad for the kitchen, and a shower curtain. Our shower is not functional right now but Bernie will figure it out. He’s already flushed the drains and will rig up a way to keep the water from going all over the floor. It’s always interesting to fight the gremlins when we first arrive. And we are having great appreciation for our usual apartment of many years!
It’s 9:59 pm, still daylight and now wonderfully cool.
A bientot,
Linda & Bernie
June 28, 2015 @ 9:29 pm
I thought you had air conditioning this year
June 28, 2015 @ 9:58 pm
Bless your sweet hearts. Hope you get settled in soon and temps moderate. Hate to say this, but it’s wonderful here. High in70’s, lows in LOW 60’s. Heavenly. But only for a week.
Hate to have been in that snowman suit!
June 28, 2015 @ 10:34 pm
I like your apartment, Nini! Love, Avery
June 29, 2015 @ 5:48 am
I love you too, Avery. Maybe next year, you can join us for your first trip to Paris!
June 29, 2015 @ 1:54 am
My goodness you have had a few challenges already, haven’t you? But I love your positive, can-do spirit. Looking forward to hearing how you and Bernie navigate your temporary bumps in the road. The pictures Bernie took of the parade were wonderful!
June 29, 2015 @ 3:10 am
Tell Bernie his photos were wonderful! I hadn’t heard of the summer carnival parade, but it does look intriguing. I guess you’ll just have to plan to always be out at a restaurant or bistro having an aperitif between 5 and 7. You will figure it out!
À bientôt!
June 29, 2015 @ 5:56 am
It’s actually and more correctly called the Carnaval Tropicale per Bernie. He always edits my blogs for me after the fact…ha!
June 29, 2015 @ 12:01 pm
Nice shots, Bernie. I can’t believe the apartment is so very, very small. It looks really nice, though and I like the view. While you are in the hundreds over there, we have a nice week in the low 80’s with very little humidity.
June 29, 2015 @ 1:39 pm
Linda and Bernie, you guys are a trip! Love the gorgeous photos and details you have provided about your adventure. So happy for you both. One exciting thing here is that we have finally seen two humming birds. Yes I know! Problem is we had taken our feeder down (it had been drained one night as yours was) and I had not yet put it back out. I rushed to refill/rehang the feeder; however, they have not yet returned. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. All the best, Toni
June 29, 2015 @ 3:33 pm
So glad you are along for the ride! And hope you have some more hummingbirds soon! I left my feeder empty until we return.
June 29, 2015 @ 5:11 pm
Love, Love the Blog! Have shared the photos with Sterling employees. I am sure that you will have the new apartment in perfect splendor before summer’s end!
June 29, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
Layne, so glad you are along for the ride. Share with friends. Love to have them enter their emails individually and subscribe so I can show a higher number of readers. I’m trying to get my Paris book published and “social platform” is a really big deal. How many times have you been to Paris? It’s a wonderful city.
June 29, 2015 @ 7:36 pm
In the past 30 years, at least 30 times! We had a Parisian apprentice here at Sterling , who was a relative of Ted Paludan, live with us while working at the office. She came to improve her English, and left with a Southern Accent! We still communicate, and she still lives in Paris, as do her parents, and her Grandparents. The house has been passed down from family to family.
And of course, Jerry Whitworth lives there! Claude and I had dinner with him in September of last year. I will ask my leisure department to sign up for this blog….I am loving it… Layne
June 29, 2015 @ 7:39 pm
Love getting your feedback! Thanks for helping me grow the blog!