day 3, got an apartment

after spending all day yesterday pounding the pavement in our apartment search, i feel that maynard’s staying behind, was a good thing. we are a heavy enough presence in our friend’s apartment, and with the running around we need to do to get everything set up: apartment, cell phones, bank accounts, official documents , it would have been an extra complication to take care of a dog. maynard is doing fine. he got transported to the country house and that evening played with his new dog friend, PLUS got to chase a rabbit. he is staying close to his new foster mom, literally leaning on her for encouragement.

we were a bit nervous at our prospects and in reflecting on the first apt, felt it really had all the right elements. not our dream house, but we’re only here for a year, theoretically. so we called to see if it was still available and to make an appt to see it again in the afternoon implying we would take it. then p spent all morning phoning apartment leads. he made more than 20 calls and got through to only one person to make an appointment who then called back to cancel, because the apt was already rented. the one other appointment we had, also was cancelled. so we decided we should take the first apt. j still wanted a crepe, so after going to the bank again (to shift money so we could write a deposit check), we searched out a crepe guy on one corner of the bastille. crepe craving was satisfied.

the landlord for the apt is a bit of a mellow guy who lives the rest of the year in a resort town in india. he doesn’t like the crazy pace of the west and luckily, didn’t seem to need the hundreds of documents normally asked of prospective tenants. he accepted us and we left a first rent check. we then walked around the neighborhood and found a beautiful park with impeccably kept grass and flowers and bourgeois families of small children lounging and sun bathing. it was the “noe valley” of paris. we were very excited to have such a nice spot nearby. Print this post