My birthday came and went last weekend and it marked by the dawning of a new era. Not just of being 22, an age which I consider to be "over the hill", but also because Oli and I got the keys to our new apartment. I said a reluctant goodbye to 18 rue Gerando and moved (in several tiresome journeys) my things just 4 stops down line 12 to 110 rue Caulaincourt.
After much fierce negotiation and discussion we settled on our 48msq apartment dubbed by Oli as "a blank canvas". 48msq is massive I hear you cry? Well yes, it is obscenely enormous! Adding this to the fact that the price is no more than you'd be paying for a place half the size in the so-called centre of Paris and we've got ourselves an absolute steal! 1 bedroom and 1 sofa bed will see us adopt a weekly rotation policy which should work out fine as we've ingeniously put a sheet on each side of the mattress (my idea).
Despite the obvious that Oli isn't in fact a Bachelor, I am still declaring it a Bachelor Pad. Simply becuase it has the feel of a young adult's home. We are without internet or TV for the time being (although there is a TV as old as both of us combined which we hope to use) so we have been left with simple conversation and reading to fill the time, a throwback to the "Good Old Days".
All this served to round off a great weekend made all the better with Jack and Rob having come from the UK to stay with us. Next up this weekend is family time and a very nice 2 day holiday. I've just got to figure out what to do with them now....
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