I suspect Kian and Niall and I have probably walked at least 15 to 20 miles since arriving here last Wednesday or at least it seems that way. We walk everywhere now and the memory of owning a car is fading fast. When going to the grocery store (we discovered a BIG grocery store in Passy this afternoon!) we always have our trusty pull cart Cassie purchased several weeks ago when she moved into the apartment so we are now just another small bunch of Parisians on the street.
There is dogshit everywhere even though there's an ordinance for folks to clean it up and like Cassie I'm finding some pretty exotic cars (a jet black Aston Martin the last couple of days) right on the street outside our apartment.
We're meeting some very nice French folks who are pleased we're endeavoring to speak French even if we mangle it a bit when trying. To a person they're always patient in correcting us like the waiter Pascal at our favorite watering hole Brasserie 16 (pronounced "se-zem") who was really pleased the first time we were there last Thursday when we ordered from the French menu. We went again this last Saturday to meet the Veronique Perrot from the relo company to ask some questions and the owner told her and us that because the 16th arrondissement which is our new neighborhood is so far removed from normal tourist areas there are seldom ANY Americans there so he too was VERY pleased that there are Americans who want to hang out in HIS place and made us feel VERY welcome indeed. The food here is extraordinary and even Kian and Niall are eating things regularly that they would have NEVER eaten in the US.
I'm adjusting to being here again and it's agreeing with me. We all are and I'm hearing from friends back in Lynchburg that they're all betting that we never come back. We will come back eventually but with "eventually" being the key word here.
Cassie is here working late drinking some red wine from Aux en Provence and I'm having another 1664 bier from Strasbourg and all is well.
More tomorrow when we go to find..........cat litter.........* Mon Dieu!
A biento,
- sid
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