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Here's our kitchen - its quite spacious by Paris standards. Included is a washer/dryer, and a dishwasher -- I had to move to Paris to get a dishwasher! Our washer-dryer, which I insisted on has turned out to be quite troublesome. I've had many adventures trying to do our laundry -- things seem to come out permanently wrinkled in a way I never knew was possible. Needless to say, the second and third things I bought in Paris (after a hairdryer) was an iron and ironing board. Last night I came home and opened the door to remove some jeans (damp - the best way to go), and created a little flood in the kitchen -- I didn't think front-loading machines would open if full of water -- aaah, live and learn!
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come on over for dinner!
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Here is the parking that became a bottom line in our decision-making. As Mike has a company car, finding an apartment with parking became very important. In Paris such arrangements are unusual. We have the garage spot second from the right. We have to use a big shoe-horn to get Mike's car into the garage every night -- its a tight spot!
4 Comments:
A French "washer/dryer": surely, someone will be able to figure out how to operate one. And what is it with all the wrinkles? And the permanent damp? And the supposedly "intuitive" instructions on the front with little diagrams, and arrows, and circles, and squares...
Just the sight of a cute and maniacal French "washer/dryer" makes me want to scream...the extraordinary wrinkles...the recourse to laying damp clothes out on the floor...the incredibly long "cycles" where things spin around but nothing happens...the sudden waterfalls...when you can figure that out, Mike and Gillian, you'll be real Parisians!!!!
Craig has lived the French washer-dryer experience obviously - his descriptions here pinpoint our experience PRECISELY. Our (seemingly brand new) machine baffles and aggravates me on a daily basis -- daily because that's how often you have to do laundry because you can only wash two things at a time or run the risk of destroying your clothes beyond recognition. And when I got here I wonder why the hell people were bringing their bed sheets to the dry-cleaners/laundry -- well, now I understand -- wouldn't want to try to get the balled up wad of wrinkles that was once your sheet to stretch back over your mattress.
In all fairness--as I sometimes like to say--the "French" washing machine I so struggled with was actually made in Great Britian, by Hoover. Can Mike with his international business connections call up the brainboxes over at Hoover and tell them that their washing machines, like their vacuum cleaners, suck?
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