Our Apartment

August 8th, 2017

Our apartment is quite nice. It is pretty spacious for the three (four) of us, although nothing like what we’re used to in Newton. There is a nice living room/dining room, furnished with contemporary furniture in neutral tones. There are two highly-stylized pieces of art on the wall suggesting nude women. (Kate says, “What are we going to do with those?” “Nothing.”)

Artwork we did not choose

We have three bedrooms, all pretty small with minimal storage. The third bedroom will be our guest room/overflow storage room. I would be kidding myself to think that its second function will not be exploited extensively. The kitchen is decent, but not adequate for large cooking and baking projects. That’s ok---that’s what they make restaurants and bakeries for. Our dishwasher is tiny and our washer/dryer combination is also quite small. They will both receive a workout this year.

View of Luxembourg Palace outside our window

As I mentioned before, we are directly across from the Odeon Theater. It has posted its 2017-18 season, and there are a few plays I think we will see. Macbeth will be performed in English. Chekov’s Three Sisters will be in Russian with French and English subtitles. There was some other play performed in English, and they also have both Moliere and Racine plays in French that we may attempt. I would like to go to the opera and ballet, too, but I haven’t researched those at all.