3 Nights in Paris (Again)
The cheapest transatlantic flights to France seem to always land in Paris. So it made sense to spend some time in Paris at the beginning and the end of our trip. For the finale of our trip, we booked three nights at an Airbnb in Paris -- but this was no ordinary Airbnb. This was the actual studio of painter Georges Braque in 1911 which the host tastefully decorated with artists' books and period furniture. Located in the center of Quartier Pigalle, our home was two blocks from the Moulin Rouge (which lost its windmill sails just before we arrived) and steps away from the Rue Lepic and Rue des Abesseses restaurant districts. This is Toulouse-Lautrec and Amélie territory -- which is the center of Paris as far we are concerned. After months of planning, we finally got to meet Juliette Dubois, our Cine-Balade tour guide. If her exhaustively thorough website is any indication, this woman is the real Ms. Cinema and I've been waiting to meet someone like her all my life. As the r