Bonsoir, The weather is next to perfect, the streets are jammed with happy shoppers walking down the middle of busy streets. (I just love how they do that.) One can feel le joie de vivre. In our area of the Marais, there are more locals than tourists so it’s a great place to experience daily […]
Bonjour, We’re so excited to tell you that the picture problems seem to be fixed and we will convince you of that with today’s post…full of wonderful eye candy. We’ll recoup the photos we had of the lovely folks at Paris Fashion week for your enjoyment. Again, we don’t know if these were models or […]
Bonsoir mes amis, Update! Hot off the press! Just got everything to work with Google Chrome! This blog post is now surpassed!!! First the bad news. There will not be pictures on the blog until either Apple or Word Press figures out their incompatibility. So very frustrating. If you are on Facebook or Twitter, I […]
Bonsoir, Today has all been about pictures! Read on and you will understand. How funny life can be on certain occasions. We had two wonderful opportunities today to pursue fabulous pictures, and 0-la-la, would you belive that we left the apartment without the chip in our camera! I was the last to use it so […]
Dear Friends, Today has been such fun, the kind of day we truly love. First of all, the weather is glorious: clear, crisp, cool and made for outdoor adventure. Before we left the apartment, I was making us a ham and cheese omelet for lunch when Bernie burst into the apartment just as the omelet […]
Bonsoir mes amis, Charles and Judy Gattis left Paris this morning to catch their plane at Orly. We put them in the cab with many hugs and well wishes after eight glorious days exploring together. The rest of our day was taken up with cleaning, laundry, and grocery shopping. We needed a catch-up day and […]
Dear Friends, If we seemed to have disappeared, it’s because we did! We have been without any internet or cable connection for almost two days due to a major outage in the general area. Wow, we’ve all been having withdrawal. It just came back up and I’ll try to whiz through the highlights of our […]
Bonsoir, Today has been a summer day in Paris with temps in the 80’s. Mix this with a fall wardrobe and we were pretty uncomfortable. I started in one outfit, a light, cotton sweater and scarf, and ended the day much lighter. Poor Judy has fewer choices with her travel attire and has just had […]
Bon soir, A beautiful day in Paris almost always beckons us up the mountain to Montmartre. It is a favorite of ours and evokes a wistful sense of all the great artists who painted from its lovely mountainsides such as Renoir, Picasso and Salvador Dali. It is what I fondly call “old Paris” and the […]
Bonsoir mes amis, Paris weather is absolutely beautiful, and according to the locals, making up for their August which was untypically cool and rainy! How lucky we are to benefit from this quirk of events. The leaves are starting to change, the days are shorter, and the chestnuts are EVERYWHERE, big lovely chestnuts. If you’re […]
Wow, what a long, crazy, but fun day. Most of you by now know that we have been in a 2-star hotel since getting to Paris on Thursday due to a miscommunication with our landlady. The start of our day’s journey would have made a great movie. Charles and Judy Gattis were due to arrive […]
Bonjour mes amis, How lucky can we be to get this fabulous weather in Paris! There is not a cloud in the sky and the temps are perfect. There are fewer people here but not as few as I had thought and hoped. Last evening after I had already sent out my blog post, we […]
Bonjour! Today is gorgeous with sunshine so bright that picture-taking was challenging. What a lovely problem to have, mais oui? We are surviving in our little hotel as best we can though really looking forward to moving into our usual apartment on Sunday morning! In case you are just reading your first blog post, there […]
Dear Friends, FINALLY, today is our departure day, and I’m overwhelmed with so many feelings. I miss my friend Sharon Tyson who has for so many years taken us to the airport. It was part of our tradition, but she is now in Tucson. BUT my wonderful friend and golfing buddy Barbara Buice has stepped […]
This morning I feel a little like I’ve been put through a meat grinder. To bed at 8:30pm and awake at 1:30…ugh! Definitely, my body clock is out of sync but I will persist. On my walk this morning, I was reflecting on how very lucky I am at this stage of life (OLD) to […]
Our preparations for Paris continue! What might you ask does this entail? stopping the newspaper dealing with mail delivery finding someone to take care of house plants getting an updated car tag securing symphony tickets so others can use them. calling all credit card companies with travel dates so that our cards will not be […]
Today is the official start of our trip to Paris for 2014. It is the first day of acclimating our body clocks on Paris time which is seven hours ahead of us here in Alabama. Tonight and every night before leaving, we will go to bed an hour earlier than the previous night and get […]
As our journey to Paris gets closer and closer, we are excited about one thing in particular, the wine festival at Montmartre on the first weekend in October. In case you don’t know, there are lovely grape vineyards on the back side of the mountain and years ago, this was a fruitful harvest. Now it […]