Since I wanted to spend most of my time in Paris, I rented an apartment instead of a hotel room.
I had discovered that Craigslist not only had a page for Paris, but that most of the short term apartment listings were actually in English. I sent a short list to Scott, who helpfully checked them out and helped with identifying neighborhoods, convenience, and the like.
The Montmartre w apartment (#6 Rue Cortot) was tiny, little bigger than a very modest hotel room in fact, but suited my needs. It felt a lot like home, being up on top of a hill, and also that odd mix of tourist-land and old neighborhood.
I'm not sure if the particular apartment that I stayed in was Erik Satie's w, but from what I've read it would have been comparably small -- just enough room for a piano and a cot.
The first thing I did after signing the lease was walk down the hill to the nearest hardware shop, where I bought the biggest fan I could find. It would turn out to be the smartest thing I did that month. It would take me another three weeks to figure out how to keep milk in the painfully underpowered minifridge from going off within a day.
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