Parler Paris Après-Midi
NEXT MEETING: January 13th 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... Tuesday, January 13, 2004 Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| See past reports... October
28, 2003 |
MEETING OF DECEMBER
23, 2003
(Photos and descriptions of participants do not necessarily match!)
MIMI
(with no last name) who lives in "G--y" because Paris is too
noisy and polluted, refused to have her photo taken until she blushed
her cheeks and lipsticked her lips. She says G--y is her secret place
and we shouldn't tell anyone. Mimi, we won't. Mimi is no shy, wilting
flower, but LUCETTE, a French woman who had visited Parler Parlor before,
refused to be photographed nor tell us her last name. She came to speak
English and that's all we learned. She is NOT photographed here!
ANN
MORTON who spends some of her time each year in her spacious apartment
in the 11th (just put up for sale) came from San Francisco to join us
before heading to Bordeaux to visit friends. JOHN FERRIER, the newest
addtion to the IL Paris Office (Assistant) checks a Paris map, while
chatting with regular Après Midi visitor, WYNN JONES.
GALENA
DANTSOVA, with her heavy Russian accent, is just here as a tourist a
few days from, yes, Russia, but TERRY HILMAN MCCARTHY comes here regularly
and is dreaming of moving here. What's preventing her is her teenage
son who can't bear to leave his friends. It's a tough decision, but
she's prepared to wait it out.
WILL
FAAS has been living here 12 years and works in marketing at a telecommunications
company. His French wife teaches high school while on the side, they
own a few apartments in the 13th they rent furnished on a mid-term basis.
Smart.
CHRISTIANE
ZANGHELLINI, whose name I love to say (zaaan-gaa-lee-ni) came along
with Lucette to practice speaking English and meet Americans, but wasn't
as shy for our camera.
KATHY
BORRUS, author of "1000
Buildings in Paris" laughs embarrassingly while Mimi jokingly
gets affectionate. She's only here from DC this time for a visit --
it's never long enough.
John
captured ME listening intently to Wynn Jones' tales.
