We arrived here in mid-December, and have been really busy finding an apartment and getting set up. In hopes of not letting the perfect become an enemy of the good, as a Professor once said, I'll post a few overdue photos, and hereby recommence this blog!
More exciting adventures to come soon-I promise!
The apartment we found is a two-three bedroom, two bath flat on the second floor of a very "lively" area (this from our realtor). It's liveliness derives from it having both a hodgepodge of high-end stores (i.e. selling Bianchi bikes-which astonished me) to an incredibly bustling bazaar selling all sorts of bizarre goods (i know horrible pun). Some photos of the bizarre bazaar soon (sorry, couldn't help it)
In choosing an apartment, light was a priority. Many of the flats we visited had no windows, and were absolutely soul-sucking. The thought of spending my days there actually brought tears to my eyes. The place we found has great light as you can see in this photo of our bedroom (love the two-toned paint).
The whole apartment actually gets pretty good light; here's jo in our dining room/study....
So the apartment came "furnished", which is nice. Furnished in this context meant crappy pots and pans, kitchen table, beds, desk, and couches...the couches we're, let's just say very "special".
Jo was let us say nonplussed.
This couch set is a case in point for the cultural relativity of aesthetics. Although this couch set made us actually hurt, and we went out and bought a bunch of fabric to cover them, we've somehow gotten used to them....somehow...don't ask me how. Ok that's it for now. More very soon, promise.
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