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Parler Paris Après-Midi

NEXT MEETING: July 13th, 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...

July 13, 2004
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
Copyright 2006, Adrian Leeds®
Adrian Leeds Group, LLC, http://www.adrianleeds.com

MEETING OF JUNE 8TH, 2004
(Photos do not necessarily match descriptions.)

Carol West, who is trying out a year in Paris, looking for a place to buy property and find work, stopped in on route to Darty for a new phone -- and jokingly pulled out her defunct non-cordless phone from her bag which reminded Après Midi regular Wynn Jones (who is always caught on camera with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other) of when cell phones were as big as a computer and came along with a big heavy box you had to take everywhere with you to get reception. Those were the days.

Yolanda Robins, past conference attendee and volunteer staff at the Working and Living in France Conference beginning next weekend, came for the first time even though she had made her dream come true when she moved to Paris several months ago.

Florence Senecal, just returned from an exciting backpack trip through Asia and still stopped in to say hello.

Sandy Zayas didn't miss an opportunity to come and bring with her Jane Stivarius who lives here half the year and in Miami the other half.

Gregarious Sid Lezak, a mediator from Portland, whose wife lectures in France and has turned him into a Francophile, didn't drag his wife along...she was doing "other" things...while he was chatting up the "girls" -- Manda Loison (a.k.a. Manda Djinn), an old friend who is a talented singer, playwright and composer;

Wallace Kinkade, who has lived in France full-time on several occasions and now comes a few times a year to visit her daughter and grandchildren; Caryn Shaye, a fashion designer and antique purchasing consultant, spends two months here and three months in the U.S. and Erica Bailey who is still dancing at La Nouvelle Eve and managing Paris on an artist's budget. Alan Schrift helped hold down the table with Sid, a recent owner of an apartment in the 3rd arrondissement not far away and wanted to know things a "future Expat might want to know."

Regular Patricia Laplante-Collins, coordinator of Paris Soirées and Patricia Mitchell, a resident of Paris since December who is writing and researching France vs. Italy as a place to settle get to know each other better while Patricia's canine sidekick, Eve, takes a rest under their chairs.

Berkeley student, Katen Bush, and her friend, Bonnie Mallory, are here together putting the finishing touches on Katen's "new" 16th-century apartment just a few blocks away. With an old stone wall exposed and all new kitchen and bath have turned this pied-à-terre into a dream.

Thom Keel, a teacher at the Georgia Institute of Technology for three months here in Paris made another stop at Après Midi and hung out with Ana Escomel, a regular visitor who comes frequently to get her "fix" of Paris and Francine Collins, who is here on holiday until the end of June, but would like to buy a condo in Paris sometime soon.

Bernard Ollagnier, a Frenchman who is a manager of a communications agency called "December" is working to develop a new concierge business and came to study us foreigners for marketing his new services. He quickly made a connection with Porter Scott, IL's Property Rentals Manager, who arrived at the last minute. We couldn't resist heading over to Katen's to see her newly renovated apartment and Venetian mirror she bought in Nice (reflecting the newly exposed stone wall!).