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Bonne Année 2019

January 1, 2019 by Hugh Nelson 16 Comments

Happy New Year! 2018 ended for Brenda and me at an all-French party with friends and friends of friends in their home south of Paris. We returned to our apartment at about 4am this morning. Cafés and bars in our neighborhood were still going strong and there was lots of traffic. Über was charging surge […]

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August in Paris

August 7, 2018 by Hugh Nelson 7 Comments

Brenda on deserted rue Cler

Today it’s about 97°F, which has been typical this August in Paris. We have bright sun and not much wind. Since most apartments don’t have air conditioning, it’s pretty miserable in most places. The French call this weather une canicule, which comes from the latin canicula for small dog. In English we call days like […]

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US Passport Renewal in Paris

June 2, 2018 by Hugh Nelson 14 Comments

US Embassy Paris

A small insight into life for Americans in France. We are in the process of passport renewal for our 10 year US passports. In the US you would fill out a form, send it with a check in the amount of the renewal fee to the State Department, along with a new passport photo and […]

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Snow in Paris

February 9, 2018 by Hugh Nelson 14 Comments

Champs de Mars in the snow

It doesn’t snow in Paris very often, and when it does, we see the flakes falling but nothing accumulates on the ground. Paris, although it is at the same latitude as the northern-most parts of the US, has a mild, temperate climate similar to Seattle. The relatively mild winter weather is both because of its […]

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Happy New Year 2018!

January 1, 2018 by Hugh Nelson 2 Comments

Apologies to our readers. We have fixed the security device that was blocking comments to our post. We did a lot in 2017, but one thing we didn’t do was post to this blog. Our experiment of living in France is now almost five years old, and 2017 was no less active than any of […]

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What did you do in 2016?

December 29, 2016 by Hugh Nelson Leave a Comment

Pianist Emil Reinert with two friends

Joyeux fête de fin d’année! (Happy new year’s eve celebration!) Friends in the US and people we meet here ask us what we do in France. When we tell them we are retired, the French always wonder how we could possibly have chosen France, since our dream is not necessarily their dream. The Americans ask, […]

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