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Parler Paris Après-Midi

NEXT MEETING: September 14th, 2004 AND EVERY SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

This is your opportunity to meet every month, often with local professionals who can answer your Working and Living in France questions. You are invited to come for drinks and share your questions and comments about what it takes to create a life here, own property and enjoy what France has to offer. It is also an opportunity to network with other Parler Paris readers.

Upstairs at La Pierre du Marais
96, rue des Archives at the corner of rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris Métro Lines 9, 3 et 11, stations Temple, République or Arts et Métiers

This coming year's meetings...

No Après Midi Meeting in August

September 14, 2004
October 12, 2004
November 9, 2004
December 14, 2004

Copyright 2006, Adrian Leeds®
Adrian Leeds Group, LLC, http://www.adrianleeds.com

See past reports...

October 28, 2003
November 25, 2003
December 9, 2003
December 23, 2003
January 13, 2004
February 10, 2004
March 9, 2004
April 13, 2004
May 11, 2004
June 8, 2004
Copyright 2006, Adrian Leeds®
Adrian Leeds Group, LLC, http://www.adrianleeds.com

MEETING OF JULY 13TH, 2004
(Photos do not necessarily match descriptions.)

Lots of participants from the Living and Investing in France Conference in San Francisco this past March surprised us at Après Midi!...Elisabeth DuPar and her pup, Sainte Marie and her brother Michael Matz. She's dreaming of a new life in France after 12 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and developing a line of products for dogs and cats. Michael is here this trip to support his sister in her possible business ventures and to explore what might develop for him, improve his French and plan for his future here.

Elisabeth had lots to talk about with Hat Sternstein, a participant of the first Working and Living in France Conference (2002) living here now and who just got the trademark approved for "Mon Bon Chien," her new pet gourmet bakery! She is also scheduled to go to the Préfecture this August for her Carte de Séjour -- so is moving along nicely through the bureaucratic maze (with the help of Jean Taquet). Hat's friend, Bill McCabe, retired is along for the ride.

We hadn't seen Ronnie Rubin in a long time. He's been here five years, lived in five apartments, had three lawyers and is still "fighting" the system! Ray Ruiz stops in every time he's in Paris and the timing works out -- Ray has an apartment not far away in the 2nd near rue Montorgueil and a B and B in the French Quarter in New Orleans called La Dauphine. He promised to bring me N.O. Coffee and Chicory his next time here.

Author of The Insider Guide to Black Paris, Melinda Herron, stopped in with her friend Marianne Faure and regular visitor Patricia Laplante Collins of Paris Soirées joined us with her pup, Eve.

British friends Amanda Hudson and Anna Agostini stopped in. Amanda is a district nurse who joined her husband here working in the financial market for a few years. She's not working at the moment, but is working on improving her French and is renovating a house in Normandy. Anna is a translator and interpreter.

Rick Fitzgerald and Marilyn MacGregor live here only in the summers in a small apartment in the 5th near rue Mouffetard and place Medard. Marilyn is writing about 17th and 18th-century Paris and has always dreamed of living here since first visiting in 1973. Patricia Mitchell is a regular at Après Midi -- has been here seven months and is still contemplating her options. Tom Keel brought his wife, Karen who has joined him for the last two weeks of his study abroad program teaching for Georgia Tech. Fortunately, we'll see them again next summer for three months.

Business-Mentors.com Al Stewart brought along with him Doug Chadwick from Fort Lauderdale, New York and now Paris. He buys and sells real estate and is becoming more and more familiar with the Paris market. Mark Kritz is a familiar face -- having connected with him at many different events over the years although this was his first stop at Après Midi. Now retired, he spends as much time in Paris as he can in his Montmartre apartment.

Seth Sherwood is here indefinitely, or rather as long as possible. He's a regular freelancer for the Washington Post Travel Section and also contributes to other publications. His hope is to find regular work in journalism or publishing. Patricia Westheimer came for the Paris Writer's Workshop and is thinking about living here from 2005-2006. She's been a journalist in Portugal and teaches SAT preparatory courses to students, teaches creativity and speech classes in Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Micheal Pounds and Pam Davis were also at the past conference in San Francisco. They stopped by with Jocelyn Carnegie, IL's French Property Consultant after visiting and apartment in the very next-door building that looks like it could be the winning candidate to buy and rent to vacationers while enjoying it themselves from time to time.

We also recently saw Mary Jo Jacoby in San Francisco at the Living and Investing in France Conference. She's here renting for one month, but thinking about buying something. Steve Moses had lived in Paris for four years during the '80s and always wanted to buy an apartment for vacations and to spend a few months a year here. He has a "studette" in the 5th that is tiny buy "calls his own." Carlyle Maw and Jenny Hefferon stopped in for such a short time we missed getting a photo of them -- they're regulars to the Parler Parlor French-English Conversation Group from West Palm Beach here for a while. Gillian Ackland is only here for a three-week stay from California, but wanted to get to know some of the other readers by coming to Après Midi.