Living in Paris

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 From 2005-2007 we lived in Paris, it was the time of our lives.  I blogged during that time, and wanted to make sure to preserve the memories and photos from that wild ride. With the Coronavirus goop clamping down on anything new Travel related, I thought it would be good to republish and re-live them here. It also matches well with me reworking all my photo albums, since most of the original photo links on my original blog from 2005-7 are now dead as I've shuffled photos around. 

I've created some links on the left side (or in the page menu on mobile)  to help folks navigate around. 

Enjoy!

Notre Dame in all her glory


Paris Fun 

I tried to focus blogging on things about living in Paris that were off the beaten tourist path. Many weekends we'd start without a plan, and just head off to walk in a random direction from the apartment. We'd always find something interesting. 



Two year Travel Frenzy

We went wild with traveling. I was given the choice to keep my US vacation plan (4 weeks) or have the French vacation plan (9 weeks!). Needless to say I passed the intelligence test and took the crazy 9 weeks of vacation. So we were either traveling or planning a trip the entire 2 years. We had plenty of fun France quick trips, I think my favorites were Avignon, Lyon, Nancy, and Champagne. 
 Further afield we visited Brugge, London, Amalfi coast, Assisi, Berlin, Zermatt, Venice, Verona, Florence, Amsterdam, Cologne, Vienna, Bratislava, Cinque Terre, Valle d'Aosta, Chamonix.




Expat Logistics and the Long Goodbye 

Moving to a foreign country has plenty of challenges, from the tons of paperwork to get approved to stay for 2 years, trying to rent an apartment (fun fact: Paris apartments usually are rented without kitchen cabinets or appliances), figuring out what to take and dealing with movers, etc etc.

If you are considering a move overseas, you might want to peruse the ExpatLogistics posts



All The Paris Assignment Posts

If you want to peruse all the posts (living in Paris, our travels, and all the interesting bits about being an expat), they are all labeled ParisAssignment

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