I forgot to show you the apartment we stayed at in Paris. Here it is:
The top picture shows the street we were on. At the far end among the greenery—about a two-minute walk—is Madeleine, and a short turn to the left leads to the metro station. The bottom picture shows the inner courtyard. The doors to the left lead to our apartment, which was on the second floor.
Within a three-minute walk there was a pharmacy, a small supermarket, a home-goods store, a boulangerie or two, a small park with a playground for kids, an insane amount of high-end shopping, and of course, loads of restaurants.
I didn't take any indoor pictures of the apartment, but it was an Airbnb rental so you can see dozens of indoor pictures if you want to. It was a great place: safe, quiet, nice shower and bathroom, a very usable little kitchen, and enough table space for blogging and sewing and so forth. (We ate in the living room so we could use the table for other stuff.) I'd stay there again in a heartbeat.
Lovely - & with a day of sunshine for the photos! Have been wondering if the cruise & Paris sightseeing left time for the charming parc de bagatelle.
Wow. Luxury. I would imagine kids are forbidden? Perfect for adults.
Why do I keep picturing Angela Lansbury solving a murder mystery there...
Solving a murder?
Or, do you mean committing?
And that's how you build a city.
Be that as it may, given when that area was likely built it was pretty much the way one had to build a city. Pre Renault, Ford, Daimler, et al.
Les gens habitent dans les villes, pas les voitures.
But it certainly seems otherwise...
Including some showing the all electric kitchen. Cooking without gas! Incroyable!
Can't believe you left.
The listing suggests $357 per night. Even if there is a discount for longer stays, that is still rather steep. And even then, if the calendar with the listing is any indication, there isn't much in the way of availability until September.
Reminds of our trip to Paris in 2001. We stayed near the Eiffel Tower. Walked our feet off. After Paris we cruised down towards Spain. Saint Jean de Luz, Saint Jean Pied de Port, Lourdes, The prehistoric caves and the old English inholdings. Should have done more.
Dear Kevin: You left out two essentials...that I would hope that you would follow up on...
First, as an AirBNB property...were the owners there, at home, when you were staying there? Personally, I still am having some trouble getting my head around this whole concept, (though I have stayed in vacant small efficiency apartments, still, they were were entirely mine when I was there).
Secondly, what was the cost per night? As an ancillary query, did you continue your stay at the apt while you were on the cruise? (to be fair, Rome cost me $150 a night, 50 meters from the Parthenon, and a few years earlier, $75 a night outside of Nice, and $40/night in Budapest....anything over $50 a night anywhere still seems crazy to me...{Yes, of course I know I am wrong in these regards}). Best Wishes, Traveller
Airbnb left its couch-surfacing days behind years ago (I mean, you can still find listings like that, but the service long ago became a perfect—and usually quite superious in my experience—substitute for private hotel rooms).
I know a lot of lefties purport to hate Airbnb, but I love it. Saved my life when I was stranded for an extended period in the States in 2020. There are other competing services, of course. In Asia I usually book hotel rooms, but in North America my default is to rent an apartment/condo via Airbnb or a competitor. I haven't been to Europe in a while.
Purport is the most charitable way to put it.
The owners lived in another apartment in the same building. Cost was about $350/night when we were there in early June. Probably more in summer.
Thank You, Both Jasper and Kevin. This just goes to show what three years of virtual lockdown will do to a person's knowledge base...(and spend pre Covid travel in South East Asia, {Loved still communist oriented Laos}).
I feel a little better without the family being there...in truth, a month of so ago I had to be back east for university graduations and rented a condo through Vrbo ( Vacation Rentals by Owner or VRBO), at least in part because of my fogginess on AirBnB...., which, because it was not in Paris and rather in a small.ish mid-western city was not so expensive, (though still too dear to me!)
In any case, thanks again...next time I will try to be smarter...lol (best wishes, Traveller)
Another unit taken off the long-term rental market, thus driving up the cost of living in Paris.
True, but think of the profit for the Boomer proprietors.
(Pretty sure Kevin & his missus weren't lodging in my aunt's spare apartment, but... stranger things have happened.)
Until now, I was jealous of you mostly because of Hopper and Hilbert and Charlie.
I assume that the fact that I was recently in Atalaia do Norte in Brazil (where the British journalist Dom Phillips and his colleague Bruno Pereira were murdered a few days ago) wouldn't engender the same level of travel-related jealousy?
Second floor North American, or second floor European?
Mr Mongoose, that was funny, (with a touch of biting truth to it).
In any case I wished to add a coda to my little story...my actual preference was to stay in the semi crime ridden Motel 6, but even with a senior AARP discount, it came to $68.88 a night!
But various family members vetoed this choice...it would be difficult to have gatherings of large numbers of people and parties. Alas.
But what happened to Motel 6, Six dollars a night or Super eight at $8.00? That is where their names came from...swept away on the waves of history...Best Wishes, Traveller
Tom Bodett did nothing wrong.
It's beautiful. What did you think of Paris?
Not too far from my old flat in the 8th (rue Laborde, near St Augustin). I do love those inside courtyards, they are excellent at sound isolation if your flat isn't in the front building, with views on the street.
Now in the 5th, near Cluny Museum. Medieval museum, a 'converted' Abbaye built on Roman baths. Pretty cool too.
Courtyard smaller, a bit noisier, a bit closer to the neighbours, though they did a wickedly good job with vis-a-vis windows (in a century old building too!) to avoid people peering too directly into your living space. Neat, though we're thinking of moving outside Paris, what with the kids reaching university age.