A Classic Stair Down

Melanie and I are still in the Paris "Honeymoon Phase" so we haven't experienced any major culture shock yet, though I'm sure that is coming. I have started to notice differences between Paris and our old home in the Seattle area.

Here's one: there are a LOT of spiral staircases here. This is a picture of the one in our new flat:

Going down the stairs in our new apartment

I'm used to stairs that are all the same depth, but as you can see from the picture my right foot has less room to step down than my left foot which feels sort of... unbalancing... somehow. At first I felt like I was trying to walk down the stairs wearing a clown shoe on my right foot, but I'm getting used to it now.

Yesterday we ate at a bistro with a nearly vertical spiral staircase. Sebastien, my Project Lead, saw how cautious I was going down and he quipped, "That's why they serve food upstairs and drinks downstairs."