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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Nous sommes arrives a Paris


Our trip up to Paris went without a hitch. We took the 11:50 train from Ste. Foy and were installed in the apartment that will be home for the next 3 weeks by 4:30. The cats did really well, even Calypso. The vet has given us some mal de transport meds for her which worked ok. On the trip back we will up the dosage a bit.
The apartment is well located only 2 minutes from the Eiffel Tower and 2 minutes from a huge street market. It's size is about the same as the boat so living in a small space is not new to any of us. We look out on to an enormous courtyard. There are 2 very well placed windows where a cat can perch and watch Parisian life: birds, dogs, etc.
The weather had been good so we have walked a lot: 6.2 miles on Sunday and 13.3 miles on Monday. Sunday we did an architectural tour of the art nouveau in our quartier, Monday a trip to the marina at Arsenal. More about that in a later post.
We found a favorite cafe the first time out where each morning we have our coffee and croissant and we are heading now!

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