Company!

Staying in an apartment here makes it easy to invite friends to visit. Since the invitation is to Paris, most accept. Immediately.

Last week two friends from Seattle arrived for a week's visit. They stayed here 4 nights, then moved to a hotel for the remainder of their stay.

When I saw the 2-room suite at their hotel, I had trouble believing that they had actually enjoyed sharing the tiny bathroom here and pulling down the Murphy bed every night. But they assured me the experience was memorable.

Because they moved to an entirely different area, we were able to explore and enjoy two neighborhoods in the course of errand-running and Christmas shopping.

One Christmas window near their hotel featured penguins. When the window was illuminated, the birds moved up and down.



Here's a side street near their hotel (located near the Luxembourg Gardens.)





The Luxembourg Museum was directly across the street from the hotel, making it wonderfully easy to visit the current exhibit, a Cézanne retrospective, featuring his time in Paris.







The visitors from Seattle departed on Monday. Today Ian and Zanne arrive.

Now it really IS Christmas!

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