Parler Paris Après-Midi
NEXT MEETING: November 9, 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... 2005 to be announced... |
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reports... |
MEETING OF OCTOBER 12TH, 2004
(Photos do not necessarily match descriptions.)
It
was a perfect mix of newcomers and oldtimers...and old friends we hadn't
seen in way too long. Old and dear friends included: Walter
and Shirley Pappas, Washington, DC area residents and regulars
visitors to Paris, whose photographic talents (Walter's) have graced
the pages of Parler Paris on many occasions; Dale Novick Gaber,
dear friend from New Orleans who has taken up residence in my guest
room this Fall and is looking for an opportunity to stay in Paris 
forever;
Yvette-Marie d'Alençon, a true Normande I met
10 years ago at a conversation group who has a magnificent half-timbered
400-year-old estate in Normandy 'between the cheeses' -- Livarot, Pont
l'Evêque and Camembert! and Eva Lee Lichtenberg,
a U.S. Attorney living in Tranquility, New Jersey who comes to Paris
as often as she can and who with many years in general practice, is
committed to alternative dispute resolution whenever
possible. (See /parlerparis/services/askalawyer.html
for more information!)
Among the regular visitors we've come to enjoy were Eric Tolbert,
whose story about PACS (a French civil union,"pacte civil de solidarité")
is a guiding light for all who wish to make the effort (see /parlerparis/issues/pparis10-9-04.html
to
read the whole story); Ana Escomel is still here and
figuring out a way to stay permanently. She came with
Lynda Sydney, who is back again, getting her Paris
"fix;" Tom Regan, rue St. Paul apartment
owner, who grew a beard and shaved his head brought
along a visiting friend, Dick Munn;
Peter Martineau, resident of Albany who came to know
us 
first
via the Insider Paris Guide for Good Value Restaurants seems hot to buy an apartment in Paris
and Patricia Laplante Collins, whose Sunday Soirées
and Wednesdays Paris Network are booming, came along with her pup, Eve
as always; David and Beverly Campbell were back after
traveling in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and getting country-home
fever!
Lots
of new faces graced the door...Deborah Sommers, an
Exterior Designer specializing in urban spaces: balconies,
terraces and courtyards; Sharon Varturk,
who says she "must have done something right to
come to Paris, though not good enough to come equipped with a work permit!";
Denise and Terry McNamara on holiday and interested
in buying property in the next few years; Joan Fenton
from Toronto, also on vacation in Paris, but would like to live here
eventually and also wants to know the ins and outs of buying property;
Deborah Kemp, an attorney from San Francisco on sabbatical
from 
October
to June, considering buying an apartment here; Peter Kilbay
who has been coming to Paris all is life, but is now considering moving
here; Alanea Kowalski is a coach and Human Resources
consultant looking for a project or contact work with large, multinational
organizations, where the language of business is English, and who would
like to meet as many people as possible; Naomi Beckler
who came to Paris for a job in 1997 and then decided to stay on 
and
set up her own business as a Professional Organizer; Sandra
Syms, a real estate broker from New York who can assist people
in relocating to the U.S. and Darienne Moyer, who failed
to tell us much of anything about herself, at least on paper!
