Our First Week
After two months of preparation and setting our house in order in Eden, followed by two weeks at the MTC (Mission Training Center in Provo, UT, we are finally here in our beautiful, old apartment on l’Ile de la Cité in the heart of Paris. We live on the Quai du Marché Neuf across the river from the bus station shown in blue on the map below. CLICK ON THE RED HYPERLINKS AS YOU GO... Arriving from the airport THEN CLICK ON THE BACK ARROW TO THE LEFT OF THE URL... We are grateful our apartment doesn’t overlook the Seine but a courtyard instead. This spares us the direct sunlight and some of the noise of the city only a few hundred yards away. Notre Dame - under renovation - is a few minutes walk down the road from us. In the evenings, we hear the excited cries of sightseers on the ‘bateaux mouches’ as they pass under Petit Pont and other bridges near us, incited by the boats’ guides. Bateau mouche video The ceilings of our apartment remind me of when I was a teenager living in Scotland. T...