We arrived to find that our airport shuttle wasn't there and then they fed us several excuses which would have involved some time-travel or teleportation to actually be possible. A typical French welcome, so at least we can thank them for that. We took a taxi into the city instead. 42E !!!
Look how much luggage we had. (This is in Toronto)
Pneumatic tubes. The future of travel in Paris.
Thankfully Emmanuel was waiting to greet us at our apartment and show us everything. He is super nice and helped us out when our internet went down a few days later (for an entire week! C'etait tres embetant!)
Our apartment
View all the apartment pics here.
Welcome to the IKEA showroom. Basically 95% of this apartment is furnished in neutral IKEA furniture. It's perfect, it's spacious and it's now our home for 4 months. But it looks exactly like it did we when checked it out online, so we're happy.
Except we don't have a microwave. Do you know what that's like? As I type this I'm trying to re-heat leftover curry in a pan on the stove.
However on the plus side we have every other appliance imaginable. We have 3 different crepe pans alone, and a cuisinart with several attachement that I won't ever use but like to brag about. Who knows, maybe we'll make soup and an immersion blender will come in handy.
Our first meal in paris.
Baguette for 0.85E and huge hunk of brie for 1.10E. With the dozen or so bakeries within a stone's throw from our place, we've had opportunity to taste several baguette varieties.
We've also been to the grocery store about 50 times already. Usually 2-3 times a day anyway, which is fine because we always seem to find ourselves at the grocery in every city we've been to. Things are strange here – the eggs aren't refrigerated at the store. Though as Nat pointed out they don't come out of the chicken cold either.
Also, no one eats peanut butter, they eat Nutella instead. I tried to find PB in the store and it was the only time someone was actually rude to me, though mostly he was just frustrated because they actually call it something else here.
Out and about
Our first meal at a restaurant
Movers moving furniture
Outdoor public toilets - FREE (je t'aime)
This guy was unhappy that our bus tour cut him off, so he cuts the bus off just to vent his road rage and share some choice words. How French!
For all you SATC fans, this is the bridge at the end where Big finally tells Carrie she's the one. Nat was very excited when we stumbled upon this landmark.
This is a "small" drink at McDonalds. Note: unlike at home, small *actually* means small here.
More photos on Nat's Facebook (open to the public) with fun comments
Photos on Flickr
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