Bonjour from Paris

Leo and I are in Paris, getting up to date, on your behalf, on the current hotel scene there (we’ve written several books on the city together, including the Charming Small Hotel Guide to Paris). We each stayed in a different hotel each night, as is our custom on our inspection trips, for the first few nights, but now that we need to get together and do some work, we’ve rented an enchanting 7th floor apartment (reached by a tiny wrought iron cage lift) near Bastille. I feel I should be penning a novel – probably something in the style of Colette– up here. Its got polished wood floors and pretty pictures on white walls and a tiny but sweet kitchen with an amazing view of the Eiffel Tower. Every hour, on the hour from nine pm to midnight, it bursts into an explosion of flashing, gittering lights lasting for ten minutes, before sobering up for the next 50 minutes. Amazing! Go to www.parisinsight.com for more details of the apartment and its rental. More from Paris in my next post, including where to eat, where to stay and what to do.