14. Invalides – ok, but no cigar

Neighborhood was good in the 7th with a view of the front of the magnificent Invalides Monument, provided you were able to pull yourself through the side window and contort your body to view it from around the front of the building. The apartment was on the first floor of a busy street with a totally unworkable kitchen although the rest of it was spacious and with extra terrestrial closets that must have been constructed by an alien (a.k.a. an American). The broker demanded a 300 euro non-refundable deposit to check our dossier meaning if we failed, we would be reimbursed, but if we passed we were stuck with it so we passed since there was more we didn’t like than we liked.