The Apartment – Wednesday 8 Nov 2006

Well we’ve been in the apartment for a week or so now… it’s ok… We keep looking around and thinking to our selves ‘so this was the best one we saw…’ unfortunately it was the best one by a LONG way!

Its ok, its got big rooms – plenty of space. It’s just that everything has about 30 years of in ground dirt and grim. I used about half a bottle of disinfectant spray to clean the bathrooms on the night we moved in (even though the real estate man had sent cleaners there during the day – I don’t think they did anything!)

We hadn’t thought ahead, so we didn’t have fresh sheets and I didn’t have a towel – I had to use another sheet for a towel! We went to the Carrefour (supermarket – some French chain kind of a combination of coles and k-mart) and bought some basic food and towels etc…

The kitchen just has a gas stove top – no oven, no microwave, no toaster – in fact there aren’t really any appliances at all – not even an iron or a kettle!. It’s like there the previous tenet took everything that wasn’t nailed down! We’re thinking about buying either a toaster oven (about $180) or a convection microwave (about $350)… so we can have more than stir-fries and one pot meals..

Actually we have cooked a meal – chicken stir-fry. It was really yummy. At least that’s a start.

I had to get a new mattress – Chris’s room had a double bed, but mine just had two singles pushed together! The mattresses here are just cotton – so they are hard as a rock – but that’s better than saggy springs so the new mattress is pretty good.