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Parler Paris Après-Midi

NEXT MEETING: October 10, 2006 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 Living and Investing 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.

*Special Note: Anyone attending Parler Paris Après Midi must be willing to have their photograph taken and a brief description written about them for publishing in Parler Paris. Your presence indicates your willingness to participate.

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

 

 

Next coming year's meetings... No August Meeting October 10, 2006 November 14, 2006 December 12, 2006

See past reports... 2006 January 10, 2006 February 14, 2005 March 14, 2006 April 11, 2006 May 9, 2006 June 13, 2006 July 11, 2006

See past reports... 2005 December 13, 2005 November 8, 2005 October 11, 2005 September 13, 2005 July 12, 2005 June 14, 2005 May 10, 2005 April 12, 2005 March 8, 2005 February 8, 2005 January 11, 2005

See past reports... 2004 December 14, 2004 November 9, 2004 October 12, 2004 September 14, 2004 July 13, 2004 June 8, 2004 May 11, 2004 April 13, 2004 March 9, 2004 February 10, 2004 January 13, 2004

See past reports... 2003 December 23, 2003 December 9, 2003 November 25, 2003 October 28, 2003

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
(Photos do not match the descriptions!)

It was a packed house for La Rentrée at La Pierre du Marais for Parler Paris Après Midi on Tuesday and a very international assembly of folks, many with the same backgrounds with lots to share!

Sheila Kern, an American commercial and fine artist living/decorator now in Ireland who is now here testing out Paris as a place to live joined us again. There were several other architects/decorators to attend -- Ellen Jung-Josse, Property Consultant for French Property Insider Consultation and Nicholas Harding, British born, but Australian educated who has been in Paris since 1978 working as a freelance architect and technical translator from French to English

Loretto Mara, of High Performance Management, Media and Communication Skills Training in Dublin, was one of the first to show up and says she's here to in Paris to brush up on her French. Long-standing participant Anne Morton, and life coach with a new consultancy named Tap Your Potential, will be in Paris a while longer in her Montmartre studio she loves and rents when she's not here.

Filmmaker Judith Merians would like to start film clinics in all aspects of filmmaking, make new friends and learn more French. Old regular and filmmaker, Robert Larrea, came by, too, to say hello and see what was going on now that the year had started up again.

Andrew Nadell and Eleanore Ramsey Nadell are visiting Paris again, still collecting Gothic Revival and are planning on going to conference at the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie in Avignon at the end of the month.

Newlywed and small business consultant Don David Price came without his new bride, Patricia Westheimer, who was unfortunately tied up elsewhere. They're here for a sabbatical from their home in Portugal where Patricia is a travel writer.

It was the first time at Après Midi for Shelly Bradford Bell, retired Planning Commissioner of San Francisco, who keeps an apartment in Paris to spend half her year here or more.

Mary Louise Stillman, jewelry designer, who has become a regular visitor to Après Midi, gifted me with one of her fabulous creations!

My long-time friend and college buddy, Dena Nahmias, with her husband, Ed, residents of Los Angeles, are visiting Paris for the first time without their daughter Allison who was a student here during Junior Year Abroad.

Patricia Laplante-Collins, of Paris Soirées, as always, was present with her pup, Eve. Pamela and Jim Leavy stopped in, now full-time residents and often visitors to Après Midi.

Marie-Elisabeth Crochard, coordinator of the Parler Parlor French-English Conversation Group, came for the first time after all these years, to see what the afternoon coffee is all about. Parler Parlor will begin meeting every Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at La Pierre du Marais beginning October 10th!

Véronique Aptekman, an Esalen massage practitioner who is part French, part American, was born and raised in Paris and London, but lived 10 years in New York and Los Angeles. She's developing a clientele here and can make house calls with her portable table. Along the same lines was Diane Hawkins, a journalist for the New York Daily News, who is also a nutrition and fitness expert who also does fitness seminars.

Peter Weisberg apologized that Dominique could not make the meeting, but is here for three months on this particular stay. He first moved to Paris in 1978 then moved back to the States in 1982. His love of Paris keeps him coming back year after year.

Maxine Pollack and Tom Morris have always loved Paris and had time and flexibility to spend more time here now, so they're here for two months soaking it up. How lucky!

Allan Smid, native of Amsterdam, but raised in Argentina and educated in Missouri in journalism has worked for the International Herald Tribune and the Associated Press and has lived in Paris since the '70's.

Marian Socash has been living in Hong Kong and Singapore for 12 years, but wanted to try out Europe for size, so she's been here 8 years now. She's a retired investment banker turned personal trainer in private practice.

Judith Anderson came to Paris 10 years ago with United Airlines as a hostess and never left. She tried Brussels and London but is most comfortable in Paris than anywhere. Her goal is to have a full and meaningful experience and increase her knowledge of arts, people and history.

Past Living and Investing in France Conference attendee Robin Katsaros came by to say hello -- she's awfully proud of her new Paris apartment in the 7th on rue Saint-Dominique!

David Sprawls of DavidDrinks.com paid us a nice visit, but without sporting drinks and so did Sue Medsger, who just retired and moved to Paris to be with her two grandchildren here.

Debra Ward just found out about us not long ago, but decided to join us while she's here for Prêt-à-Porter. She's beginning a business as an independent fashion representative, committed to bringing over French fashion designers who have little or no distribution in the U.S. We are sure to see her here more permanently in the next 18 months.

Nicolas Corbin, a French sound engineer, is working for "Association Niko Studio." The company's main goal is to record, mix and promote artists of all musical styles, but his personal project is to expatriate himself to New York City!

Turn about's fair play!