A place to call home

It seemed like a great idea at the time: Rent a fabulous apartment and spend a week living like a Parisian.

First of all, look at all the money we would save with four of us staying in an apartment instead of pricey hotels, then doing our own cooking to avoid expensive restaurants and cafés where even a café crème costs $8 these days.

Of course, it didn’t turn out quite as blue sky as we had planned. There were a few bumps along the way, a broken toilet being the most serious, but all in all it turned out well. Read more » »