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Nico the
Parisian Cat Long line of
people waiting to enter the newest museum in More of the line
in front of the Musée. Tom
demonstrates the tariff-free status of Parisian public toilets. View from our
balcony on a gorgeous Sunday morning. |
Welcome to the
2006 Our
instructions were delivered at about noon.
That’s right, as soon as we arrived we had a job to do. We are catsitting for two days. Our responsibility is pictured at
left. Her name is Nico, and her staff
is an American family living in We wonder if
Nico, who is Parisian, will become an American when her staff must go back
home to For now, we are
Parisian. In the evening
of the day we arrived, Not all French
people watched the game. While we had
dinner at Oh! Duo, on Avenue Emile Zola, we noted that the restaurant was
almost full while the game was going on, and there was no television in
sight. The next
morning, I tried to buy a copy of Le Parisien at the
newstand, but they were sold out. That
issue of the paper was devoted almost exclusively to the previous evening’s
victory. Le Parisien must have printed more papers because we were able to
buy one off of a brand new stack much later in the day. Mercifully, not
much has changed in Something else
has changed. The toilet kiosks that I
have explained and photographed in prior years’ journals are now FREE. There are no longer any excuses for people
peeing in the bushes here. Finally, the
other big change is that the commercial street that we live next to (aptly
called the Rue du Commerce) is undergoing a massive renovation to make it
more friendly to pedestrians and less friendly to cars. That’s great, and we love the changes, but
in the meantime, there are construction noises, dust, and barricades. The noise isn’t so bad because it replaces
a lot of traffic noise. The apartment
owners asked us to check in on another apartment they own, where work has
recently been done. We did that this
morning, and tried desperately to revive the fried ivy in two window boxes. Yes, it is warm
here. All three days so far have had
high temperatures of about 90 F. It
isn’t so humid as home in Tomorrow we
have appointments to see two more apartments, one of which we may rent for
the month of September. One is in the
Marais, and the other is near St. Sulpice and Hemingway’s former apartment. Another
neighborhood scene. |