So I have to get it ALL In Now!

Yesterday we met up with a property finder, an agent that helps you find a place, but is not a real estate agent. If you are successful, they will get a percentage. There is no up front fee with this one and she only gets paid if we find a place and buy it. She was from Poland and remembering when she moved to Pars, envied our stage of the process, when everything is new. She seemed to be a real go-getter who had no patience for the Parisian traffic. She said,”My German side comes out and I think Red Means Red!“ as we uncustomarily waited for the light to change BEFORE entering the crosswalk.
This was the Divorce Apartment. A couple bought this place and within months divorced, one moved to LA and the other to NYC, so much for the Parisian Dream ;-}.





Okay, this is the tiny apartment without kitchen in the Marais.





3 very small rooms, about 10'x8' each, one is going to have to accommodate a kitchen and still serve as a living room. the bathroom was about 5 feet wide, no kidding. It was as wide as the shower at the end. the sink would maybe hold 2 quarts! This place was in the Marais, which is a nice area, but you couldn't open the windows because it would be that noisy with traffic.
ParisStay, the rental place, has not contacted us since we got to Paris. They seem to function only online, once you are in Paris, service drops off considerably. Of course the four day holiday didn’t help.
After looking at the lovely but miniscule place sans kitchen, we looked at a real 1980’s NY style dump, with rather vulgar graffiti in english in the entrance. The first floor was some sort of asian institute of something or other. The apartment was empty except for trash and a poster of AC/DC a picture of Pete Doughtery. Uh, yeah, I’ll be moving in here. The agent, whose name was Charlie Brown (Marron), thought we could fix the place up and he was certain that the center court, composed of five parking places was going to be replaced with some plantings and bamboo. Don’t think so. Parking in Paris is as expensive as New York, there is no way they would replace that courtyard of green with nature. Well, okay, their cash isn’t green but you catch my drift.

Found a had to have hat, a black leather cloche that can look very 1920’s to au currant.
Then for the other end, leopard booties. They look somewhat like desert boots but with a small leopard covered heel. Love them!
Bon Marche is the most fabulous store I have ever seen, it makes Harrod’s look like pikers. It is massive, makes Harvey Nicks look small. As Dick says,”I read everything here is of quality, there is no store brand.
When we got back to the apartment, we tried in vain too connect to the internet and surfed the TV for english programs. We found Amy Winehouse live,my my the girl was so high. She was slurring through the whole show. She can sing but does not enunciate. Its a junkie thing I think. The band was tight and hot but she drug them through the whole set, no pun intended.