We are into our eighth week of self-confinement, quarantine, staying home, io resto a casa, ensemble à la maison - whatever you want to call it - and it is becoming very monotonous. BUT, I dare complain, it has been a quiet and peaceful two months in Paris. Its community once again has overcome their daily frustrations of living in a metropole and shown their unique sense of resilience and solidarity in times of a crisis.
It seems 24% of Parisians have skipped town and the capital is emptier than during the month of August but the rest of us have been unusually friendly even chatty proving an unprecedented neighbourhood vibe where residents perch at their windows greeting each other.
Monday the country's confinement will be lifted and life will slowly reboot, however, with the mobs of tourists gone the city once again will belong to the Parisians.
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