two new places

Here are the two new apartments that I'm considering. They are both further away from my school, but I have been advised by wonderful Ann Marie and Marta that living far away isn't so bad, that traveling between places is half of the experience, and that there are some nice neighborhoods to be found in areas more toward the center.

The first one that caught my attention was one right on the river in the Latin Quarter (5th):
Rue Buffon
Map of the area
Marta says that this one is a 10-min walk away from where her apartment is and that it's a nice area where normal people live, not overly full of tourists. She was pretty excited about this one. However, the inside of the apartment, though it has character, does not impress me in terms of its layout. Plus, it's too hard to get an idea of the floor-plan from the pictures.

This is the one I just found which is currently my favorite one so far, in the 10th:
Rue du Faubourg du Temple
Map of the area
Talk about character!! Plus, I really like how much storage space this one has! Yeah, there would be one flight of stairs for the harp--that's a down-side--but I've done that before, right Colleen? I don't know much about the area, though it seems to be pretty non-descript, seeing as no one has said anything about it in the course of all my Paris research.

Now if they would just response to my request forms!