July - Bonjour Paris!

Greetings from Paris!  We are settled in our new apartment and love being back in France.  The last few weeks of June were VERY hectic - travel for work(JD), packing, end of school, getting out of the Lund Place rental house, donating a ton of our furniture, staying with Grannie, saying goodbye, and flying out of Dulles on July 4th!

Some things that have changed since we left 2 years ago:  Paris now has self-checkout at some stores, more loyalty cards and coupons, the food truck craze is going full swing as is the hamburger craze, and sadly, more Starbucks, and bagels everywhere.   Also sad and very disturbing - the trend of putting locks on the bridges across the Seine has expanded to more bridges than the Pont des Arts.  The Roma vendors even sells the locks on the bridge.  Not only is this very ugly, but the bridge walls are starting to collapse under the weight.  See BBC article "'Lovelocks' collapse Paris bridge rail".

end of June
Lunch at Parthenon with Carrie, Alex's last day of school (that's Alex with his teacher Mme Harrington), dentist, playing.

July 4th
Leaving Grannie's for Dulles, Air France lounge, A380 to Charles de Gaulle.

July 5th
Arriving, hotel for two days, jet lag, lunch at the L'Anjou (our friends are still there!), new park and updated playground at Parc de la Planchette, checking out the empty apartment. 

July 6th
More hotel, mopping the apartment, dinner at La Piazzetta (which is much better than when we left), view of Eiffel Tower from our hotel (not apartment).

July 7th
Moving day!  In through the American 4th floor window (it's only the 3rd floor here) of our apartment.

moving men push car that is in the way
I just can't imagine them doing this in the US.

Vincent Potter:




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