As of July 25, 2019 our small clan of Anglophiles will be domiciled in the 8th Arrondisement in Paris. We are a stone’s throw from the Arc de Triomphe. I consider it a major ‘triomphe’ that we have found an apartment about which we are all thrilled. The address has us located on a main street but our ground floor apartment is actually in the building beyond/behind the courtyard so it fronts onto the interior courtyard and backs on what seems to be a fairly quiet street.
The day we saw the apartment in March 2019 when we came for a quick visit was a gloriously sunny one and Georgia opened a window in the living room to look outside. She was just opening the second window when we heard the dulcet tones of a trumpet playing La Vie en Rose. Georgia looked through the window to see a gentleman walking down the sidewalk toward her and their eyes met. He paused and continued his song, serenading a welcome to her to the City of Lights.
The building is a combination of residential and commercial space and our neighbor across the hall is a medical clinic. This feels a little like an inauspicious nod to the health traumas we’ve weathered the last 8 years but instead I’m choosing to focus on the fact that having medical specialists right next door is just extremely lucky. #Optimist Hahahaaa
