This is a double rainbow seen from my office window. It was more impressive in person, but it’s still pretty good in the photo. The second rainbow is very faint in the photo, but obviously there. Paris has a weather phenomenon that’s new to me: a single cloud, happily pouring its contents out into the [...]
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Rainbow
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Châtelet-Les Halles: Abandon hope ye who enter here
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The Châtelet-Les Halles metro stop nearly broke me today. I barely survived, hauling my bloodied spirit back to the light of day. Demons, monsters prowled through the endless twisting corridors, waiting to devour me body and soul, never to see the sweet sun again. Jen and I had an appointment to see an apartment near [...]
More thoughts on Velib
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I realize that this is getting a little monotonous. Today I decided to bike home from work. I was a little apprehensive since it was around 6 pm and I expected the traffic to be bad and the drivers’ tempers to be short. But biking in the city is even better during rush hour than [...]
Thoughts on Velib
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
It’s difficult to express how great it feels to pull a bike out of a Velib station, bike to your destination, and then return the bike at your destination. When you want to go home, you get another bike. You’re above ground the entire time, which is nice for us since we’re just getting [...]
First Impressions
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Most everything has been great during our first few days. There were two funny things that happened yesterday, though. First, the weather. We successfully signed up for Velib on their web site, then were excited to go down to the street and rent our first bike. The instant we pulled the first bike away from the station, [...]
Velib’
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today we needed to go to a shop that was about two metro stops away: just far enough to be annoying to walk back with our stuff, but close enough that riding the Metro seemed like a waste of money. So instead we got on a bike. Paris has a bike-sharing program called Velib’ (short [...]
We’ve arrived!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bonjour, Paris! We arrived! We will be living in Paris for the next three years. While we’re here, we plan to eat as much French cheese as we possibly can. Here is a picture of the view from our temporary apartment. We are staying here for a few weeks while we look for a long-term [...]
