Tuesday, October 21, 2008

What is the apartment like?

Welcome to our humble abode! We are on the second floor that includes all three sets of windows on the second floor.


You come in through the gate and you confronted with a long set of two flights of stairs. Yes that is Norma at the top. It has been good for our conditioning since we now make it up with ease...mostly.



As you come in the front door, the kitchen is on the right. It is decorated in loft style. There is reasonable counter space and drawers and cabinets to store every thing that we need.

Looking from the kitchen and to the left hand side of the living room you see the "L" shaped sectional sofa. Plus you see the end of the dinning table and chairs. The living room is down about two steps.


Looking to your right, you more clearly see the dining table and the entertainment center with the TV. They do have a high definition cable box so we can get digital or HD signals. It took us a while to find out how it worked. We get two public television channels and three commercial.


The bedroom has the loft-office, which works for us. It has wireless router in the spare bedroom but it is not secure with a password so I use my office computer to do Internet banking and other activity needing a secure line. Norma tends to work here during the day and many evenings and I work in the office. Note her height! It does not pay to be tall to work here. I have to stoop a little.
Looking more to your left and you see the hot tub and shower in the corner. We don't use it because this is a country in a water shortage so filling it up to bath doesn't seem right. The bed is king sized and comfortable.
We did not show you the washroom with toilet. The washer is combination washer and drier, which we are unfamiliar with before this trip. When it is done, it plays an ever so pleasant melody. Washing is fine but the drying leaves the clothes a bit damp. We have to hang things up to finish drying.


There is another shower and basin room as well as a spare bedroom but there is nothing particularly special about them so no pictures. All and all it is very serviceable. It is just 2 1/2
blocks from the P&O and about three-four blocks from Coles grocery store.