We get sunburn ...
When you wish to stay in a foreign country must comply with the rules of that foreign country. It turns out that these rules are generally very complicated and generate fresh monumental see Appalachian. Launched in January, our efforts to obtain a visa H1b have reached that last week. The final act is the appointment to the embassy to see the precious visa affixed not less valuable in our biometric passports. It must be said that with attorney fees ($ 4000), the costs of recognition degree ($ 650), visa fees ($ 640), the cost of anti-fraud ($ 1000), the cost of emergency procedure ($ 1000) and the processing fee back ($ 132 per person) we were right to expect (but nothing more) it would work.
Rendezvous took several weeks in advance by phone (and for the modest sum of 15 € extra) for Thursday, July 8 8:30 AM at 2 avenue Gabriel, Paris 8, a stone's throw from the Place de la Concorde. After a brief huddle marriage, we decided to take the girls with us to show them the wonders of our glorious Capital.
Oh, joy of wandering tourist! What promised to be a perilous exercise family survival in a hostile environment proved to be a slice of real vacation. An organization with almost no shock Quack, a backpack filled with water bottles, sunscreen, tissues, snacks, hats and subway tickets assured logistics company. The hotel is conveniently located in a quiet street in the 9th arrondissement, has allowed us to walk the Sacred Heart first, then to Notre Dame. We were able to eat on the benches of the Luxembourg and refresh our in the fountains of the Place des Vosges, the ancestral skulls and totems worrying Musée du Quai Branly offered us a haven of tranquility in the midst of summer heat, the wonderful ticket queuing at the Louvre we opened doors gently Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece.
Especially for the first time in memory of torque, Paris seemed to us clean, charming, removed, sometimes friendly and really nice. Was it the Mediterranean sky? American Hotel? Lebanese restaurant? Malian vendors? Chinese tourists? Maybe a little of this and also claim to do only what was feasible, at the rate of children without forcing.
Suddenly, New York is a little less scary: spend a few days seems almost possible ...
Meanwhile, oil spills in the Gulf ...
When you wish to stay in a foreign country must comply with the rules of that foreign country. It turns out that these rules are generally very complicated and generate fresh monumental see Appalachian. Launched in January, our efforts to obtain a visa H1b have reached that last week. The final act is the appointment to the embassy to see the precious visa affixed not less valuable in our biometric passports. It must be said that with attorney fees ($ 4000), the costs of recognition degree ($ 650), visa fees ($ 640), the cost of anti-fraud ($ 1000), the cost of emergency procedure ($ 1000) and the processing fee back ($ 132 per person) we were right to expect (but nothing more) it would work.
Rendezvous took several weeks in advance by phone (and for the modest sum of 15 € extra) for Thursday, July 8 8:30 AM at 2 avenue Gabriel, Paris 8, a stone's throw from the Place de la Concorde. After a brief huddle marriage, we decided to take the girls with us to show them the wonders of our glorious Capital.
Oh, joy of wandering tourist! What promised to be a perilous exercise family survival in a hostile environment proved to be a slice of real vacation. An organization with almost no shock Quack, a backpack filled with water bottles, sunscreen, tissues, snacks, hats and subway tickets assured logistics company. The hotel is conveniently located in a quiet street in the 9th arrondissement, has allowed us to walk the Sacred Heart first, then to Notre Dame. We were able to eat on the benches of the Luxembourg and refresh our in the fountains of the Place des Vosges, the ancestral skulls and totems worrying Musée du Quai Branly offered us a haven of tranquility in the midst of summer heat, the wonderful ticket queuing at the Louvre we opened doors gently Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece.
Especially for the first time in memory of torque, Paris seemed to us clean, charming, removed, sometimes friendly and really nice. Was it the Mediterranean sky? American Hotel? Lebanese restaurant? Malian vendors? Chinese tourists? Maybe a little of this and also claim to do only what was feasible, at the rate of children without forcing.
Suddenly, New York is a little less scary: spend a few days seems almost possible ...
Meanwhile, oil spills in the Gulf ...
