March 05, 2006
Front Door, Back Door
I am going to be a follower. Normally I am not a meme person. I dont get tagged for them (we will not comment on the level of my interestingness based on that factor thank you... :) and I dont pick them up on their own.
But since I am low for foder that I want to admit to and put up on the blog, Becky's Virtual Tour gives me the easy way out from crying about how it is already Sunday night and I have to go to work tomorrow....
So without further ado here we go.
This is what is out my front door. Well it is off to the side of the door but I view straight on into another door and is of no interest.
Functional stairwell I that I use to go up... and down... to try and keep my arse in check against its expansionary tendancies.
This is what I wake up to daily- my little balconier. A windowsill I use to try and bring some light and garden into my itsy bitsy flat.
Since I live in an apartment building (a historical one actually, it used to be Josephine's- yes that Josephine- "hotel" for visitors. now it is a lot of studios that got their last redecoration by my guesses and the tile- around the 1970s) I only have a theoretical backyard. But behind my building is this. That is a pool, part of the prestigious lycee Henri IV and of course the Pantheon.
This is the street that the door of the building looks out on to.
Nice little side road off of what I call my front yard.
And this is the look out of my window looking down. Two important things, a theater and one of the handful of guiness signs around :) And where guiness is there are lambics too... Ahhh.
Tink! How fun - how cool! Josephine's hotel, eh? I like it. Do you like it? Of course it's all romantic and Frenchy to people who don't live there. Thanks for showing your view. :)
Posted by: Laura at March 6, 2006 01:11 AMThat is lovely! Oh how I miss Paris sometimes.
Posted by: Chris at March 6, 2006 01:32 AMLove it. I have enjoyed your blog and the pictures of the inside of your little apartment. This is perfect. Just know that there are probably a lot of soon-to-be middle-aged wives and mothers in the U.S. wishing they had done the ex-pat thing after college. I'm a little jealous of the memories you will have! :-)
Posted by: jessie at March 6, 2006 11:38 AMSo, so cosmopolitan! Thank you for sharing!
Posted by: Cara at March 6, 2006 04:11 PMYou just made me want to visit Paris again! Lovely Lovely!
Now I'll need to do this to make you miss Seattle.
Posted by: Rebecca at March 6, 2006 06:47 PMThanks for the show - nice pics! Ahh, your fans are wanting Paris now, me included.
Posted by: Terry at March 6, 2006 07:34 PMOh my - I'm a fan for sure! Visiting Paris is a must do for me at some point - it's gorgeous. Your pictures are wonderful - thanks so much for sharing! Your blog is great!
Posted by: Esther at March 6, 2006 09:52 PMI love your stairwell and your views and to live in JOSEPHINE's hotel...priceless.
Posted by: emmy at March 7, 2006 01:45 AMI wanna come visit!!! I know exactly where you'd find me. Guiness what?
Posted by: Scout at March 7, 2006 03:16 PMCan I come and visit too? We'll go all over Paris, taking pictures of wonderful sites, going to the places I didn't have time to see the last time I was there, and back up to the top of the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame (I love those gargoyles, and I'm willing to climb all those stairs for them again) and ... and ... oh! So many things to see.
I got a little misty-eyed when I saw the Pantheon dome; we stayed at Hotel du Pantheon for our honeymoon. Speaking of my honeymoon, will you do me a favor? Once spring arrives, will you go to Amorino and have some lemon sorbet or the gelato of your choice for me? (And take a picture of it too. I miss it. *sigh*)
Posted by: Christine at March 10, 2006 07:46 PM