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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 […]

Filed Under: Living

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, […]

Filed Under: Living, Sight Seeing, Travel Outside Paris

Eisenhower in Paris

June 7, 2016 by Hugh Nelson 3 Comments

Building where Eisenhower lived in Paris in 1928, now 68 Quai Louis Blériot

The only President I’ve ever seen in person was Dwight Eisenhower. It was 1956, and we lived in Peoria, Illinois. You might think that a 5 year old would not remember much of what happened back then, but I already knew who he was and what he looked like. He was revered in our family […]

Filed Under: History, Sight Seeing Tagged With: eisenhower, World War II

French Labor Protests

May 28, 2016 by Hugh Nelson Leave a Comment

French Labor protest being organized at École Militaire near our apartment

In our neighborhood of Paris, we’ve already seen two large, well organized French labor protests. There are now violent protests throughout France against proposed changes to the labor laws. The government is trying to improve the economy – why is there such strong opposition? Economic Problems France has a number of economic problems. The rate […]

Filed Under: Economy, Living Tagged With: economic conditions, labor protests, protest marches

Visit to the Swedish Club

January 17, 2016 by Hugh Nelson Leave a Comment

Site of Nobel’s former Paris house on Avenue Raymond Poincaré

Last week we received an invitation from an acquaintance to go to a mixed French and English group get together at a local Paris cafe, Lili et Riton in Montparnasse. It was followed by a light dinner and jazz music fest at a place called Cercle Suédois (Swedish Club). Brenda and I showed up at […]

Filed Under: Dining, History, Living Tagged With: Alfred Nobel, Cercle Suédois, Swedish Club

Annual Trip to the Préfecture

January 12, 2016 by Hugh Nelson Leave a Comment

Hugh standing in front of the Prefecture de Police, Paris

On Thursday, January 7th we went on our annual sojourn to the Préfecture de Police to renew our residence permits. Our original appointment was December 10th, the day before we were leaving for a Mexican cruise vacation. It seemed then to be a good thing that the nice lady at the Préfecture asked us if […]

Filed Under: Living, Moving to Paris Tagged With: carte de sejour, residence permit

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Hugh Nelson and Brenda Prowse on Pont Alexandre III
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