L’appartement

The apartment turned out to be nicer than I remembered / did justice to with my poorly-shot introductory video for Liz, especially without the former tenants’ clutter that was there when I first visited. The ceilings are really high, the kitchen is enormous (“une cuisine Americaine” by French standards, but bigger than the kitchen in our apartment in DC) and the location is great – right on the sprawling grounds of the Chateau de Fontainebleau, and not far from the train station, downtown Fonty, and the stores in Avon. Of course, there were some initial quirks and challenges – dungeon-master keys; no gas, and thus no hot water; some terribly-ugly furniture and a small bed; no internet / TV / contact with the outside world; cat hair everywhere, with the associated allergic effect on me (our housekeeper is a little old lady named Hilda that is going blind and thus couldn’t tell that she hadn’t really cleaned the apartment). But, we’re working to overcome all of these, with the help of our kooky proprietaire Madame L.