Paris Day 2

[tenlittlebullets]

So, a slightly less cranky update now that our luggage status has changed to "RECEIVED AT AIRPORT / DELIVERY PROCESS INITIATED." First of all, when I said the apartment is gorgeous I meant it. I was half-expecting some bare-bones 'furnished' apartment with a bed and a few chairs and basic pots and pans in the kitchen, but this place is so obviously lived-in. Fully-stocked kitchen, stuff in the fridge and the drawers, lots of shelves full of books (eeeee), and the owner even left us some hotel-sized shampoo bottles and three or four maps of Paris. And it's on the top floor with a terrace, which means amazing views of the city.

Slowly recuperating from jetlag--I spent a seeming eternity lying awake in bed last night, even after the drunk people at the accordion bar across the street stopped singing (XD), but I must've fallen asleep eventually. We've been squandering precious hours waiting for the fuckheads at US Airways to deliver our luggage (did you know they're responsible for 40% of the DOT's lost-luggage complaints? yeah.), but at this point I'm about ready to go out and enjoy the city and say "fuck it, they can leave it on the doorstep."

Am also feeling much more human after a grocery-store run and an obscene quantity of tea. Food is good for the soul, yo. Had a nice walk through the Parc de Belleville this morning too.

Tomorrow is Free Museum Day, so we're going to try the Louvre. But since everyone else in the city knows the Louvre is free tomorrow too, we might suck it up and save it for another day and go to Versailles or something. And then on Monday we meet misatheredpanda for the Grand Hugo Tour and lunch at the Café Procope and possibly a picnic.

We went downtown yesterday night around sunset and--yes, central Paris is just as wonderful and captivating as I remember. I thought it was the exaggeration of memory, but there really is something about this city that makes you fall in love with it.

I want to stay forever.

Comments

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

That sounds lovely! ...well, not the luggage problem. I don't trust US Airways at all. But the apartment sounds lovely! Where is it?

So - 9am at the Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, yes? (It would be good to make sure I have it right. And I have been getting lost amazingly.)

Let me know if you decide to go to the Louvre tomorrow~ I'm definitely going, and it would be strange to be in the same place without at least saying hello.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

How about 8:30 instead? We've been awake fairly early, so there wouldn't be any problems with doing it earlier. And we could see more stuff that way.

Apartment is right smack above the Parc de Belleville, in a quiet residential sort of area. (Well, quiet except for the accordion bar across the street.) And actually we've pre-emptively decided that the Louvre is going to be a mob scene on Free Day in the height of tourist season, so we're probably hitting Versailles instead.

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

8:30, then!

(Haha, accordion bar. Oh dear.) I haven't been in that area yet. Hopefully I'll get to see.
Yes, that sounds like a very sensible thing to do. But being almost sort of curious myself - I'll tell you how the mob was, assuming I make it out alive.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

We could show you the neighborhood...? :D There's a little bar/café called Chez Cosette down the street and we could all go get roaringly drunk after a long day of Frenchboy tourism.

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

Hee, that sounds good. Although never having actually been drunk before, it would probably be best if I am primarily drunk with revolutionary fervour.

[nowgoesquickly.livejournal.com]

I envy you like whoa at the moment. Enjoy your trip thoroughly.