Here are some more photos I took the last time I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. I love Paris in September. Always have. That's when the city comes back to life after the doldrums of August. We also have some of the year's best weather in September, as is the case this year. Too bad we can't go to Paris right now.
La statue de la Liberté sur la Seine
Le palais de Chaillot et la place du Trocadéro
Le palais de Tokyo (le Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris)
L'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile et la place Charles-de-Gaulle
La basilique du Sacré-Cœur sur la butte Montmartre
Meanwhile, during my virtual Paris vacation, things are on the move in Saint-Aignan.
• After worrying for years how we would ever replace our American king-size mattress, which is 25 years old, suddenly mattresses of the right size (2 meters by 2 meters) have showed up on Amazon.fr, and at very good prices. I ordered one a couple of days ago. We've had the bed itself, a modular wooden platform bed, since 1983, and want to keep it.
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• We want to have our garden path leveled re-surfaced with new gravel. The paysagiste who takes care of our yard and hedges came over yesterday, had a look, took measurements, and is preparing a bid for us.
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• We also want to have our front deck (la terrasse) re-tiled and the surface underneath re-plastered and re-painted. And we need some work done on the garden shed. We have two different masonry contractors coming by next Monday and Wednesday to work up bids for those two jobs.
All this is progress. I hope we don't have to go into some new lockdown this fall or winter.
Meanwhile, during my virtual Paris vacation, things are on the move in Saint-Aignan.
• After worrying for years how we would ever replace our American king-size mattress, which is 25 years old, suddenly mattresses of the right size (2 meters by 2 meters) have showed up on Amazon.fr, and at very good prices. I ordered one a couple of days ago. We've had the bed itself, a modular wooden platform bed, since 1983, and want to keep it.
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• We want to have our garden path leveled re-surfaced with new gravel. The paysagiste who takes care of our yard and hedges came over yesterday, had a look, took measurements, and is preparing a bid for us.
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• We also want to have our front deck (la terrasse) re-tiled and the surface underneath re-plastered and re-painted. And we need some work done on the garden shed. We have two different masonry contractors coming by next Monday and Wednesday to work up bids for those two jobs.
All this is progress. I hope we don't have to go into some new lockdown this fall or winter.
Good luck with the home improvements - or rather good luck with the interactions with tradesmen engaged to carry out said improvements.
ReplyDeleteI'll look forward to seeing the after photos of the work!
ReplyDeleteAhh Arc de Triomphe...beautiful. It is so large. Great reliefs on it as well.
ReplyDeleteLoving the photos. All but one of my trips to Paris have been in September, the exception being May during which I also had good weather but I was lucky. Be positive, Ken, I’m sure you will go up la Tour Eiffel again. :) I’m always down for anything house related, looking forward to your projects.
ReplyDeleteThe advantage of coming to France in May (or at least late May) and June is that the days are so long. But May and June are usually much wetter than September.
DeleteKen, we have been looking for the same mattress. Have you measured to make sure they can get it up he stairs?
ReplyDeleteI doubt that the delivery people will bring the new mattress into the house, much less up the stairs to the loft. We'll have to do that ouselves. We managed to get the existing king size mattress up the stairs back in 2010. And the new one is supposed to come in a "compressed" or "flattened" form. It will need to be unwrapped and left to swell back up to the intended size before we'll be able to use it.
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