Laura and I are finally settled in Paris (as settled as you can be when 400 cars and 200 scooters go screaming by our building every minute). We’ve discovered after a week that everything we could possibly need is within 2 blocks– we have a florist, 3 grocery stores, 7 or 8 brasseries, one Indian and several chinese restaurants, a sushi place, a computer store, a post office, multitudes of clothing and household goods stores, two metro stations, 5 bums, 2 pharmacies, a role-playing game store, several snack stands, 4 banks, a jewelry store, and a porsche dealer.

One thing that is noticably lacking is a place to get sandwichs am?ricains– which is basically a half-baguette stuffed with sausage, cheese and french fries right on the sandwich! I haven’t seen one yet, although it may be that the french have decided to call them “sandwichs libres” as a defiant response to our “freedom fries”. The search continues…. in the meantime, check out the pictures on the gallery page at http://gallery.sturch.net.